LUKE STOKER

Luke was born in Australia and completed his higher education at the University of Queensland and the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, after which he became a member of the Young Artist Programme at Opera Queensland. He made his Australian debut in 2013 at the West Australian Opera as Masetto (Don Giovanni). In the same year he was also awarded the German Opera Scholarship by the Opera Foundation for Young Australians, which granted him a position in the Opera Studio at Oper Köln.

 

Since relocating to Europe, Luke has developed an impressive career as a lyric bass working with companies such as the Salzburger Festspiel, Opéra national de Paris, Oper Köln, Volksoper Wien, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Oper Dortmund, Oper Leipzig and Oper im Steinbruch. He has worked with many esteemed conductors including Simone Young, Philippe Jordan, Mark Albrecht, Adam Fischer, Anja Bihlmaier, Henrik Nánási, Maxime Pascal and Antonino Fogliani. He has also worked with many award winning directors including Simon Stone, Lydia Steier, Richard Jones and Tatjana Gürbaca.

 

Luke has amassed a large working repertoire including roles such as Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Leporello, Masetto and Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Sarastro and Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte), Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Mephistofeles (Faust - Gounod), Escamillo (Carmen), Don Pedro (Beatrice et Bénédict), Titurel and Zweiter Gralsritter (Parsifal) Colline (La Bohème), Bonzo (Madama Butterfly), Timur (Turandot), Phanuel (Hérodiade), Erster Nazzarener (Salomé), Tod (Savitri), Notar and Polizeikommissar (Der Rosenkavalier) and Tod (Kaiser von Atlantis).

 

Luke has also been active on the concert stage in Europe and Australia with performances including Weihnachtsoratorium (Bach), Nelson Mass (Haydn), Requiem (Mozart), Stabat Mater (Rossini), Erste Walpurgisnacht (Mendelssohn), Requiem (Fauré), Symphony No. 8 (Mahler), The Bells (Rachmaninoff), Brander - La damnation de Faust (Berlioz).

 

Upcoming performances include Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Vodnik (Rusalka), Alidoro (Cenerentola), Saratsro (Zauberflöte), Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Colline (La Bohème) as well as Liebesliederwalzer (Brahms).