LUKE STOKER

Luke Stoker was born in Australia and completed his higher education at the University of Queensland and the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. He made his Australian debut in 2013 at WA Opera as Masetto (Don Giovanni). In the same year he was 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 working with companies such as the Salzburger Festspiel, Opéra national de Paris, Oper Köln, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Volksoper Wien, 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 as well as award winning directors including Simon Stone, Vasily Barkhatov, Lydia Steier and Richard Jones.

 

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), Titurel (Parsifal) Colline (La Bohème), Bonzo (Madama Butterfly), Timur (Turandot), Phanuel (Hérodiade), Vodnik (Rusalka), 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), Sarastro (Zauberflöte), Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Colline (La Bohème).