Mark Stone studied at King's College, Cambridge and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.

In the UK he has sung for The Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North¸ Glyndebourne, Opera Holland Park, Buxton Festival, Garsington Opera and Grange Park Opera and abroad he has sung for Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Opera Atelier Toronto, Liceu Barcelona, Leipzig, Stockholm, Montpellier, Netherlands Reisopera, Israeli Opera and New Zealand Opera. His operatic roles include Marcello, Belcore, Sonora, Gianni Schicchi, Ashton, Ford, Germont, Don Carlo (Forza), Silvio, Rossini’s Figaro, Don Giovanni, Almaviva, Guglielmo, Onegin, Yeletsky, Danilo, Eisenstein, Chou En-lai, Hector, Junius, Sid and Demetrius.

He has sung at all the major UK concert halls with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Gabrieli Players and the Hanover Band. He is also in demand as a song recitalist, in which capacity he has sung at London's Wigmore Hall and New York's Carnegie Hall.

He is a director of the CD label Stone Records, and he has also recorded for Sony BMG, EMI, Virgin, Opera Rara, Dutton and LSO Live.

Future plans include the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni (Deutsche Oper, Berlin), Mountjoy in Britten's Gloriana (Royal Opera House), Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (Köln Oper), Britten's War Requiem (La Scala, Milan), concerts and recitals around the UK and abroad, and further CD releases with pianists Stephen Barlow, Simon Lepper & Sholto Kynoch.

He lives in Sussex, UK with his wife Michelle and their son Thomas and in his spare time he enjoys playing the piano and long-distance running.

PBs: Marathon - 3:31:16 (London 2008); Half Marathon - 1:38:50 (Richmond 2005).