| Biography | Mark Le Brocq held a choral scholarship at St. Catharines College, Cambridge where he read English. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Kenneth Bowen and later continued at the National Opera Studio where he was sponsored by The Friends of English National Opera.
Upon completing his studies, Mark became a Company Principal with English National Opera. Roles at ENO included Tamino The Magic Flute; Paris King Priam; Count Almaviva The Barber of Seville; Narraboth Salome; Cassio Otello; Don Ottavio Don Giovanni; Don Basilio Figaro and Doctor Maxwell The Silver Tassie.
Marks guest appearances include the title role of Idomeneo for Opera Northern Ireland; Belmonte Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail for Garsington Opera; The Fairy Queen at the Aix Festival and Barcelona; Handels La Resurrezione and title role Il Ritorno dUlisse in Patria for Chicago Opera Theater; Oebalus Apollo et Hyancinthus for Opera Theatre Company and the Classical Opera Company and Agenore Il Re Pastore and title roles Mitridate, Lucio Silla for the Classical Opera Company. For Opera North: Witch Hänsel und Gretel, Eliates Croesus, the World Premieres of The Pied Piper, Cautionary Tales and Beached. Weinbergs The Portrait, Shapkin House of the Dead; Vitek The Makropulos Case for Opera North and Edinburgh Festival. Kurt Weills Seven Deadly Sins for the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden and Monostatos Die Zauberflöte for Opera Holland Park. Mark has worked with Tim Albery, David Alden, Tom Cairns, David Freeman, John Fulljames, Richard Jones, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Jonathan Miller, David Pountney, Graham Vick and Francesca Zambello.
On the concert platform Mark has appeared as a soloist worldwide. Performances include Tristan und Isolde and Goldschmidts Mediterranean Songs with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Dixit Dominus at the BBC Proms; B Minor Mass with the Israel Camerata; The Dream of Gerontius; Berliozs Grande Messe de Morts in St Pauls Cathedral; Mozarts C Minor Mass with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Carmina Burana with the Ulster Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Royal Albert Hall; Messiah in Lucerne with Collegium Instrumentale Brugense; Christmas Oratorio at Cadogan Hall; St Matthew Passion at Symphony Hall with the English Chamber Orchestra and Mozart Requiem with the Madrid Radio Symphony. Further concert engagements include Die Zauberflöte at the Lucerne Festival; La Resurrezione, Solomon, The Creation and The Fairy Queen with the Gabrieli Consort; Mozarts Requiem with the English Concert in Salzburg and for the BBC Proms; Beethovens Mass in C and Choral Fantasia at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; Schuberts Mass in E Flat with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Brittens Serenade with Ballet Rambert and The Diary of One who Disappeared at the Nuremberg International Festival. Conductors include Jiri Belohlavek, Paul Daniel, Richard Farnes, Jane Glover, Daniel Harding, Nicholas Kraemer, Sir Charles Mackerras, David Parry, Trevor Pinnock and Donald Runnicles. |