Alumni Feature
Stephen Clark, BA Music Performance 2010 A young American bass noted for his “stalwart” and “metallic” voice, Stephen Clark is quickly developing an exciting international opera career. Since 2018, he has been an ensemble member of the Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen, Germany, where he has given performances as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Leporello and Masetto in Don Giovanni, Melisso in Alcina, Graf Ribbing in Un ballo in maschera, and Der Bankier and Der Theaterdirektor in Lulu. In the 2020-21 season, he returns to Theater Bremen, reprising the role of Sarastro as well as singing Der Sprecher, in Die Zauberflöte and also making a role debuts as Mustafà in L’italiana in Algeri Harašta in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen. From 2016-2018, Mr. Clark was a member of the prestigious Yale Opera program. During his time there, he made a number of role debuts, such as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Luka in William Walton’s The Bear, and the Father-in-Law in Milhaud’s Le pauvre matelot. Along with his time on the stage at Yale, he performed frequently in concert, appearing as a soloist in the first two parts of Handel’s Messiah with the Hartford Chorale, in Stravinsky’s Renard with Orchestra New England, and in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Waterbury Symphony, the Hartford Symphony, and most notably with the Yale Philharmonia, a performance conducted by Marin Alsop. Mr. Clark was featured as an Apprentice Artist with Chautauqua Opera in the summer of 2018, singing Masetto in Don Giovanni while covering Leporello in the same production and also covering Pangloss in their production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. During the summers of 2017 and 2016, he was a member of Central City Opera’s Apprentice Artist Program. Highlights from his summers there include singing Angelotti in Tosca, a Denver Politician in The Ballad of Baby Doe, Azarias in Britten’s The Burning Fiery Furnace, and the title role in Mozart’s The Impresario. He has also given performances with regional opera companies such as the Fort Worth Opera Festival, Sarasota Opera, and his hometown opera company, Tulsa Opera.
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