David Stork, baritone

Left:
Happy Ending: Papageno the Bird-Catcher (David Stork) is 
united with Papagena 
(Lea Lanier) in Act 2 of 
 Magic Flute.

Below left: Despairing of ever having a girlfriend, Papageno decides that "the noose is my solution".  Below right:  Papageno plays his magic bells to call Papagena to him. Click photo to enlarge. 

Left:  David Stork as the Father in Hansel and Gretel.

Below:  David Stork as the Diplomat Sharpless in Madama Butterfly.

David L. Stork, baritone, has performed more than forty opera and musical theater roles throughout Florida and the Midwest.  He has appeared in roles ranging from Don Giovanni, Sulpice in The Daughter of the Regiment, and Escamillo in Carmen, to the Judge in Trial by Jury and Father Virgil in Nunsense III.  He has performed with many opera companies and choral societies, and is in great demand as an oratorio soloist.  Among the companies with which has performed as soloist are Michigan Opera Theater, Toledo Symphony and Choral Society, the Florida Symphony, Orlando Opera, Cartersville Opera and Seaside Music Theater.  With FCO, he has appeared as Papageno, the Father in Hansel and Gretel (which he also directed), Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, and numerous concerts.  He has been an instructor of voice at Daytona Beach Community College since 1988, has an active private voice studio and is active in the Music Ministry of Unity Church in Daytona Beach.

David is very proud of his son, Sean, who regularly appears with his father in First Coast Opera productions and attends Florida State University.  David and Sean

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