Mark Nathan

British baritone Mark Nathan is a graduate of Birmingham University, the Royal College of Music, and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is a former Emerging Artist at Scottish Opera.

Among his most recent highlights are Schaunard La bohème, Maximilian Candide (Welsh National Opera); Banana Pass the Spoon (Opera North); Baritone Soloist Do not take my story for a fairytale (English Touring Opera); Giuseppe The Gondoliers, Mr Goldbury Utopia Ltd (Scottish Opera); Wagner Faust (Irish National Opera); Schaunard in a film version of La bohème (Finite Films); and Hunter Rusalka, Guglielmo OperaFirst Così fan tutte (Garsington Opera).

His operatic roles include Don Giovanni, Marcello La bohème (Opera Loki); Papageno Die Zauberflöte (Hampstead Garden Opera); Rabotnik The Fiery Angel (Scottish Opera); Le Directeur Les mamelles de Tirésias and Death Sāvitri  (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Le Dancaïre Carmen (Waterperry Opera Festival); Dr Falke Die Fledermaus, Wagner Faust and Counsel Trial by Jury (Winterbourne Opera); Moralès Carmen (Riverside Opera); Sir Joseph Porter HMS Pinafore (Harwich Festival); Koko The Mikado (Co-Opera Co.); and Jack Point The Yeomen of the Guard  (Portsmouth Guildhall). He has also covered Mr X.E. Angel’s Bone (English National Opera); Ned Keene Peter Grimes (Opera North); Danilo The Merry Widow (Scottish Opera); and Herr von Faninal Der Rosenkavalier (Garsington Opera).

While at the at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Mark sang the role of Joseph de Rocher in the UK staged premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, receivin outstanding critical acclaim. He subsequently covered the role for Welsh National Opera and Israeli Opera.

As a recitalist and oratorio soloist, he has performed Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs and Dona Nobis Pacem, Bach Wachet auf, Ruft uns due Stimme and St John Passion; Requiems by Fauré, Duruflé, and Saint-Saëns; Finzi In Terra Pax; Howard Goodall Eternal Light Requiem; Stanford Songs of the Fleet; and Coleridge-Taylor The Death of Minnehaha.

Mark is also a keen lyricist and his debut musical, Riptide: The Slasher Musical, received an award from the Musical Theatre Network following successful performances at the Edinburgh Fringe. He has since written several other musicals, as well as a set of songs for the BBC. His collection of children’s poems: Riddle Me This, was set to music by Ronald Corp for the New London Children’s Choir.