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Rehersals are under way for Donizetti`s Lucrezia Borgia ready for the Buxton Opera Festival next month - exciting cast!
Last month saw Mark as soloist with the Abervan Male Voice Choir in Port Talbot, Kings Lynn on the 29th for an Opera Gala.
Having just finished an interesting projest with Welsh National Opera - "SONGBUS " a bus with a creative team going into the bay of Cardiff and discovering what a wealth of talent there is out there.With Mark on the bus was a composer,writer,Rap artist and a host of stars from the community!
Alongside this Mark has various concerts one of them for the Welsh National Opera was on the Orient Express (30th March) - what a treat and paid - if you can go! Service wonderful!!
Another projest that Mark has developed is OPERAXPOSED a night of your favouite music from Mozart to Lloyd Webber - well 6 shows down and all met with standing ovations - and nobody XPOSED!Singing with Mark is the sopranno Elizabeth Donovan.

June sees Mark away AGAIN rehersing Petrucci in Donizetti`s Lucrezia Borgia - directed by Stephen Medcalf and Andrew Greenwood conducts for the Buxton Opera Festival. Performances in early July.
July 12th an Opera Gala in St Fagan, Cardiff with brother Wynne, tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones, baritone David Kempster,Gary Griffiths,Rebecca Evans, Elizabeth Donovan and Michael Pollock keeping everyone in line - will be a great night!
August its back to Buxton for PINAFORE to sing the role of the Captain.
August 17th Mark returns to Cheltenham to direct the musical "The Last 5 Years" with a wonderful cast and John Quirk as MD.
Mark and brother Wynne are also preparing a new radio series for BBC Raio Wales called "Sibling Rivalry" - a must to tune into the truth is out at last!
Last November Mark returned from the Caribbean having sang on a P&O Classical Music Cruise hosted by Classic FMs very own Nick Bailey.
It was last June that Mark sang the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro for the Iford Arts Festival - stepping into the role with only ten days to go with a new translation and production - by hay!
Great reviews!!

MUSICAL OPINION SEP/OCT 2008
RIAN EVANS
`My visit to Iford Manor on the 16th June for the opening of their summer opera was specifically to watch the Welsh baritone Mark Evans sing the role of Figaro in Mozart`s Le Nozze di Figaro. It was an impressive performance - Evans has a naturally dramatic instinct and uses it to colour his already highly musical singing, while every single syllable of Michael Irwin`s translation was crystal clear!`
July saw Mark return to Brockweir Festival for an evening of food ,fun and operatic highlights. Returning for about the 8th time!

Last March was really crazy for Mark after returning from Singapore at the begining of the month, it was straight up to London for a Royal command performance, and a world premiere for Her Majesty the Queen. It was wait for it ... the opening of T5 - the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow...did anyone lose a bag!

Last November 25th was a very special concert in Mark`s diary as he has been asked to sing in Dennis O`neill`s 6oth birthday concert at the Wales Millenium Centre along side Donald Maxwell, Sue Bullock,Paul Charles Clark, Nuccia Focile,Jason Howard, Eric Roberts,Gail Pearson, Shan Cothi and Dame Kiri to name but a few. What a night all in aid of the Saint John Ambulance Brigade and filmed for a Christmas special.

Last August saw Mark make his debut as a BBC radio presenter, when he joined forces with his tenor brother, Wynne sitting in for Shan Cothi on BBC Radio Wales' 2 hour classical music programme on Sunday nights, with guests including Donald Maxwell,Eos Charter from the string quartet BOND, husband and wife, tenor Paul Charles Clark and sopranno Nuccia Focille and violinist Madeleine Mitchell, Only Men Aloud!
Sunday 26th August saw Mark co present with Sian Parri Huws - live on BBC radio Wales from Bryn Terfels` Faenol Festival `The Hills Are Alive `starring the biggest names in musical theatre - Michael Ball, Ruthie Henshall, John Owen-Jones and Connie Fisher.
Mark returned to Russia last September as a guest artist aboard P&O's classical cruise with Classic FM presenter Henry Kelly. The tour took in the Nordic capitals of Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki and the Baltic capitals of St Petersburg.