David Stout has rapidly established himself as one of the UK’s most versatile baritones. His repertoire ranges widely, encompassing early music with period instruments, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Britten, the bel canto repertoire and contemporary and twentieth-century works. He has earned a formidable reputation for his stage charisma, refined acting and presence on stage, as well as for being a great colleague whom other singers, conductors and directors are keen to work with again and again.

Recent highlights include a critically acclaimed Posa Don Carlo (Grange Park Opera); Donner Das Rheingold (with Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé); Marcello La Bohème (Scottish Opera); Gratiano The Merchant of Venice (Welsh National Opera); the title roles of Le nozze di Figaro and Figaro Gets A Divorce (Welsh National Opera); Count Douglas in Mascagni’s Guglielmo Ratcliff (Wexford Festival); the title role of Le nozze di Figaro and Fritz Kothner Die Meistersinger (both English National Opera); Sandoval Le Duc d’Albe, Paolo Simon Boccanegra and the title role of Falstaff (all with Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé); an acclaimed Sancho Pança Don Quichotte (Grange Park Opera); Bach St John Passion with the Aurora Orchestra at King’s Place; Oromazes in Rameau’s Zaïs with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Aeneas Dido and Aeneas with the English Concert at the Bristol Old Vic.