American Bass-Baritone Darren K. Stokes is a young artist of exceptional vocal ability and promise. He possesses a voice of extraordinary richness with a broad vocal range, and he sings with a singular ease. Mr. Stokes has added 43 roles to his repertoire since embarking on a singing career in 2002 and he has been in very high demand since having completed two seasons with the distinguished Ryan Opera Center of the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Mr. Stokes has had the pleasure of performing with prominent companies throughout the US. He has sung with Grant Park Music Festival, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati May Festival, Boston Lyric Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Washington National Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, San Francisco Opera, the Ravinia Festival, Opera Memphis, San Antonio Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Saratoga (Lake George Opera), Eugene Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Mr. Stokes makes mainstage debuts with The Dallas Opera, Seattle Opera and the Cleveland Orchestra both in Cleveland and NYC at Carnegie Hall and Buffalo Symphony Orchestra in upcoming seasons. On the operatic mainstage, he has performed Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Calkas (Troilus and Cressida), Ferrando (Il Trovatore), Zuniga (Carmen), Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Imperial Commissioner (Madame Butterfly), General Groves (Dr. Atomic), Mèphistophélès ( Faust), Escamillo (Carmen and Le Tragedie de Carmen), Jake/The Undertaker (Porgy and Bess), Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Neptune (The Return of Ulysses), and Parson Alltalk, (Treemonisha) among many others. Important additions by way of principal role covers include Queequeg in the World Premiere of Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick for Dallas Opera and Crown (Porgy and Bess) for Seattle Opera.