The baritone David Stout sang in the choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge and studied voice at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His opera roles to date have been Flemish Deputy (Don Carlos) for the Royal Opera House, Nikita (The Portrait), Angelotti (Tosca) and Mick (Playing Away) for the Bregenz Festival, Sträfling in the role of Don Juan (From the House of the Dead) for the Teatro Massimo, Schaunard (La Bohème) for English National Opera, the Speaker (The Magic Flute) and Dancaïro (Carmen) for Welsh National Opera, Harasta (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Papageno (The Magic Flute) for Grange Park, Marcello (La Bohème) for Mid-Wales Opera and Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) for English Touring Opera. His wide-ranging oratorio repertoire includes Bach's passions of St John and St Matthew (both at Salisbury Cathedral), the B minor Mass and Haydn's Nelson Mass (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment), Verdi's Requiem and Tippett's A Child of our Time (both at King’s College, Cambridge), Carmina Burana (Aldeburgh) and A Sea Symphony (Bach Choir). He is featured on CD recordings of The Creation with the New College Choir and the Oxford Philomusica, Messiah and the St Matthew Passion with the Hallé Orchestra. Among his projects for the current season and the near future is the role of Baron Douphol in La Traviata for the Royal Opera House.