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date = "2017-07-26T22:57:00-04:00"
discipline = "Tenor"
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publishDate = "2017-07-26T22:57:00-04:00"
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slug = "mark-le-brocq"
title = "Mark Le Brocq"
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Mark Le Brocq held a choral scholarship at St. Catharine’s 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*.

Mark’s guest appearances include the Painter/Client *Lulu* Bolzano; Loge *Das Rheingold* for Longborough Opera; Title role *Biedermann und die Brandstifter* Independent Opera; Sir Philip Wingrave *Owen Wingrave* Opera de Nancy; For Welsh National Opera: Aron *Moses und Aron*, Scrooge *A Christmas Carol*, Sergeant Snell *In Parenthesis*, the Painter/Client *Lulu*, Le Medecin *La chute de la maison Usher*, Smee *Peter Pan*. For Opera North: Bob Boles *Peter Grimes*, Steuermann *Der Fliegende Hollander*, Shapkin *House of the Dead*, Witch *Hänsel und Gretel*, Eliates *Croesus*, the World Premieres of *The Pied Piper*, *Cautionary Tales* and  *Beached*, Weinberg’s *The Portrait* and a staged St Nicolas. Vitek *The Makropulos Case*  Edinburgh Festival and Opera North. Title role *Idomeneo* for Opera Northern Ireland; Belmonte *Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail* for Garsington Opera; *The Fairy Queen* at the Aix Festival and Liceu, Barcelona; Handel’s *La Resurrezione* and title role *Il Ritorno d’Ulisse* 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.  Kurt Weill’s *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, Keith Warner and Francesca Zambello.

On the concert platform Mark has appeared as a soloist worldwide.  Performances include Tristan und Isolde and Goldschmidt’s Mediterranean Songs with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Dixit Dominus at the BBC Proms;  B Minor Mass with the Israel Camerata; *The Dream of Gerontius*;  *St Matthew Passion* Academy of Ancient Music; Beethoven *Missa Solemnis* Three Choirs’ Festival. Berlioz’s *Grande Messe de Morts* in St Paul’s Cathedral; Mozart’s 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*, *St Matthew Passion* and *The Fairy Queen* with the Gabrieli Consort; Mozart’s *Requiem* with the English Concert in Salzburg and for the BBC Proms; Beethoven’s Mass in C and Choral Fantasia at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; Schubert’s Mass in E Flat with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Britten’s *Serenade* with Ballet Rambert; *The Diary of One who Disappeared* at the Nuremberg International Festival and *The Eternal Gospel* Janacek and *A survivor from Warsaw* Schoenberg for Porto Casa da Musica. Conductors include Jiri Belohlavek, Paul Daniel, Richard Farnes, Jane Glover, Daniel Harding, Nicholas Kraemer, Sir Charles Mackerras, David Parry, Trevor Pinnock and Donald Runnicles. 

Recordings include *Messiah* Northern Sinfonia/Jane Glover; *Valete in Pace* Britten Sinfonia/Andrew Parrott; *Tristan und Isolde* (Young Sailor) Donald Runnicles/BBC Symphony; Pang Turandot and Remendado *Carmen* for Chandos; *Samson*, *Messiah*, *Saul* and *Judas Maccabeus* in live recordings from the Maulbronn Festival; Purcell’s *Hail Bright Cecilia* with the Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh for DG; Handel’s *Utrecht Te Deum*, Boyce’s *I Was Glad* with the Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral/John Scott for Hyperion and Offenbach’s *Vert-Vert* for Opera Rara.

Engagements in 2016/17 include Siegmund, Froh *The Ring* Opera North; Bassanio  *The Merchant of Venice* UK Premiere WNO; The Governor *Simplicius Simplicissimus* Independent Opera; Scrooge *A Christmas Carol* Trento; Mephistopheles *Dr Faustus* Semperoper Dresden; Bassanio  *The Merchant of Venice* ROH; Golitsyn Khovanshchina, Luka *House of the dead* WNO, *Dream of Gerontius* RTE Dublin; *Das Lied von der Erde* Extremadura Spain.
