Hailing from Hughson, California, Mr. Stark has performed on the opera stages of the Metropolitan Opera, Atlanta Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera San Jose, Hawaii Opera Theatre and Arizona Opera - to name a few. Equally comfortable as a concert repetoire, he has performed as a soloist with leading ensembles in North America - including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Stark's most noted roles include Colline in La Boheme, both Leporello and il Commendatore in Don Giovanni, both Dr. Bartolo and Don Basilio in il Barbiere di Siviglia, both Sparafucile and Count Monterone in Rigoletto, Mustafa in L'Italiana in Alergi, and Dr. Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro. In the 2019-20 season, Mr. Stark makes his debut with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre as Frank in Die Fledermaus and makes company returns to Opera San Jose as Frank in Die Fledermaus and Ferrando in il Trovatore, Tulsa Opera as Henry Mosher in Emmeline, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Dr. Potsnap in the world-premiere of Tobias Picker's Awakenings, the bass soloist for Handel's Messiah with Cathedral Productions, and the bass soloist for The Defiant Requiem Foundation's concert "Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terzin" with the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra Mr. Stark has given recitals throughout the United States and Germany, concerts at the Great Wall of China, the U.S. Colombian Embassy, U.S. French Embassy, the U.S. Austrian Embassy and the Washington National Cathedral. In 2005 he was chosen to be the featured soloist for the nationally televised opening ceremonies of the Air Force One exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Library for former First Ladies, Laura Bush and Nancy Reagan, members of the United States Senate and Congress, and for, then President of the United States, George W. Bush.