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picture of Mark WildeBorn in Scotland, Mark Wilde, was a chorister at Dundee Cathedral. He then went on to study at the University of East Anglia and the Royal College of Music. He currently studies with Gerald Martin Moore.

Recent operatic repertoire includes Don Ottavio for Birmingham Opera, Jonathan (Handel's Saul) for Opera North, Pucell's Fairy Queen for Armonico Consort, Telemacus (Monteverdi's Ulysses Comes Home) for Birmingham Opera, Frederic for ENO, The Mad Woman (Britten's Curlew River) for Birmingham Opera Company at the 2004 BBC Proms, Count Almaviva for the Savoy Opera Company, the title role in Graham Vick's highly acclaimed Candide for Birmingham Opera, Tamino for Scottish Opera, Ferrando for Welsh National Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Gianetto (La Gazza Ladra) and Don Ottavio for Garsington Opera and the Mostly Mozart Festival, and Male Chorus (Rape of Lucretia) in Riga and St Petersburg. Mark has also performed with Glyndebourne Touring Opera, and The Netherlands Opera.

Mark makes regular appearances on the concert platform both in the UK and abroad, most recently Britten Folksongs with The Northern Sinfonia and Elgar's Dream of Gerontius in Tokyo. Previous engagements include appearances with The Moneverdi Choir and Orchestra, The Hallé Orchestra, The Academy of Ancient Music, London Mozart Players, City of London Sinfonia, The Sixteen, The Hanover Band, the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, and Lahti Symphony Orchestra.

Mark has recorded Handel's Ode to St Cecila's Day and The Dettingham Te Deum for Naxos Records, Sullivan's 'The Golden Legend' and 'The Prodigal Son' for Hyperion Records, and 'Ancient Melodies', a recital CD of songs for tenor and guitar on Docker Records. He is soon to record a CD Britten's Scottish Settings.

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