Mark Oates

A long-standing State Opera South Australia artist, Mark was recognised by the Adelaide Critic’s Circle for his body of work in 2022, including premiering the dual roles of Ian Duncan/Don Dunstan in the Ruby Award winning Watershed: The Death Of Dr Duncan for the Adelaide Festival, Lt Tom Radclyffe Voss, Gastone La Traviata, Jack in the national tour of Love Burns, Bright Lights Big Dreams and the first orchestral workshop of When The Rain Stops Falling, all for State Opera SA.

Previous Adelaide Festival appearances are Mozart Requiem, Street Singer Bernstein Mass and Ruffiak Le Grande Macabre.

Further roles with State Opera SA include The Defendant Trial by Jury, Beadle Bamford Sweeney Todd, Njegus The Merry Widow, John Styx Orpheus in the Underworld, The Cantor Maria de Buenos Aires (co production with Leigh Warren Dancers/Adelaide Festival Centre returning for the Brisbane Festival) and Caterpillar Boojum!

An in-demand concert artist, Mark also tours nationally and internationally with Aerial Artists Australia.