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The Welsh baritone Mark Evans studied at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio. He has worked with English National Opera, English Touring Opera, Opera Holland Park, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, and Wexford Festival Opera in a repertoire including Malatesta Don Pasquale, Silvio Pagliacci, the title role in Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno Die Zauberflöte, Marcello La bohème, Dr Falke Die Fledermaus, Captain Corcoran HMS Pinafore, Giuseppe The Gondoliers and Barney The Silver Tassie. He has sung in several World Premières including Richard Chew’s The Redflight / Barcud for WNO, Orlando Gouch’s For the Public Good for English National Opera, Sir Nicolas Fairles in Will Todd’s The Blackened Man at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio Theatre and The Lion Hunt for English National Opera’s Baylis Programme.
International engagements have included Papageno Die Zauberflöte for Columbia Artists on a tour of the USA as well as at the Cascals Festival, Portugal, an Opera Gala to re-open the Madeira Opera House with the National Orchestra of Portugal, appearances at the Celtic Festival in Brittany, concerts in New York on behalf of the British Government following 9/11 and performances as part of the UKinNY Festival.
Concert engagements have included performances with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, as well as choral societies throughout the UK, in a repertoire ranging from Bach to Britten. His broadcasts include Sadik The Philosopher’s Stone and Friday Night is Music Night (with his brother tenor Wynne Evans) for BBC Radio and his recordings include The Traveller Curlew River for KOCH Classics.
Mark Evans’s current engagements include creating Jack in Lynne Plowman’s House of the Gods for Music Theatre Wales, Duck / Judge / Gaoler in Will Tucket’s The Wind in the Willows at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Julian Phillips’ Wild Cat for WNO Max, Carmina Burana for Maidstone Choral Union and A Night at the Opera and the Mostly Mozart Tour for Calibre Productions.
“Mark
Evans made one sit up and notice - a powerful, forward-placed voice,
compressed, solid, scary-good.”
The Blackened Man / Linbury Studio Theatre / San Francisco Post
“Mark
Evans coloured the title role with a warm baritone and at times worse
a scowl like a sex mad psychopath as he plotted rape against most of
the female principals. An international career opens before him.”
Don Giovanni / Opera Holland Park / The Observer
“Mark
Evans as Papageno is a natural comedian bursting with presence.”
Papageno: Die Zauberflöte / Columbia Artists USA / Chicago Herald
“Mark
Evans, the resonant, well rounded, charismatic Papageno is extremely
engaging.”
Papageno: Die Zauberflöte / Opera Holland Park / The Evening Standard
“Mark
Evans’ portrayal of Jack was warmly sympathetic...”
Jack: House of the Gods / Music Theatre Wales / Opera
“An
embittered, hallucinating soldier (Mark Evans in excellent voice)...”
Jack: House of the Gods / Music Theatre Wales / The Times