Luke Stoker Bass

Season 23/24 Artist

Born in Australia, Luke Stoker studied at Queensland University and Conservatorium of Music, then became a member of the Queensland Opera Young Artists program. He made his Australian debut in 2013 with West Australian Opera as Masetto (Don Giovanni). He has performed Sarastro (The Magic Flute), Méphistophélès (Gounod's Faust), Prince Grémine (Eugène Onéguine) at the Dortmund Opera, Escamillo (Carmen) and Sarastro at the Vienna Volksoper, Sparafucile (Rigoletto) and Sarastro at the Sankt Margarethen Festival in Austria, Abimélech (Samson et Dalila), Colline (La Bohème), Death (L'Empereur d'Atlantis), Sarastro and Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, where he is still a member of the Ensemble.

Prior to 2017, he was a member of the Opera Studio and then the Cologne Opera Ensemble, where he sang numerous roles, including Masetto, the Bonze (Madame Butterfly), Brander (La Damnation de Faust), Schaunard (La Bohème), the Sacristan (Tosca), Death (Holst's Savîtrî) and Nunte (Hasse's Leucippe).

In recent seasons, he has performed the roles of Sarastro at the Vienna Volksoper, Don Pedro (Béatrice et Bénédict) at the Cologne Opera, Sarastro, the Marquis d'Obigny (La Traviata), Death (The Emperor of Atlantis) and Raimondo at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, and Patriarcheas (The Greek Passion) at the Salzburg Festival. In the 2023-2024 season, he plays Titurel (Parsifal), Timur (Turandot) and the Marquis d'Obigny in Düsseldorf, and Alidoro (La Cenerentola) in Duisburg.

At the Opéra national de Paris: The Magic Flute (Second Man-at-Arms), 2017, 2019; Parsifal (A Knight of the Grail), 2018; Salome (Erster Nazarener), 2022