Luke Stoker successfully completed his education in Brisbane, Queensland. Already during his studies he received the ‚Wagner Society Award‘. In 2011 he was accepted into the ‚Young Artists Program‘ of Opera Queensland, in 2012 he started his collaboration with Opera Australia in Sydney. In July 2013 he made his debut as Masetto/“Don Giovanni“ at the West Australian Opera, also covering Commendatore.
The Australian bass was in the studio of the Cologne Opera from the 2013/14 season – he got this position as winner of the coveted ‚German Opera Scholarship‘, supported by the Opera Foundation Australia. He sang there among others Sciarrone/“Tosca“, Zaretzky/“Eugene Onegin“, Bonzo/“Madame Butterfly“, Zuniga/“Carmen“, 2.Geharnischter/“Die Zauberflöte“, Montano/“Otello“ and Brandner/“La Damnation de Faust“.
In 2015/16 he was part of the ensemble of the Cologne Opera – among other roles, roles such as Schaunard/“La Bohème“, Titurel/“Parsifal“ and Masetto/“Don Giovanni“ under Xavier Roth awaited him.
From the 2016/17 season, Luke Stoker was in the ensemble of Theater Dortmund, where he sang Sarastro/“Die Zauberflöte“, Mephisto/“Faust“ and many more, followed by his first Gremin/“Eugene Onegin“, among others.
In 2017 he made his debut at the Opéra Bastille Paris – he was invited back there for 2018, 2019,2021 and 2022.
In the summer of 2017 he debuted as Sparafucile/“Rigoletto“ at the St. Margarethen Opera Festival, Sarastro followed at the 2019 Festival there as well.
Afterwards freelance engagements brought him back to the Cologne Opera, to the Brisbane Conservatory with Brisbane Symphony.
Since summer 2019 he is a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, new productions were Abimelech/“Samson et Dalila“, Colline/“La Bohème“, Phanuel/“Herodiade“, furthermore he sings there the central roles of his subject, such as Sarastro/“Zauberflöte“. In 2020 he made his debut as Escamillo/“Carmen“ at the Volksoper Wien and as 1st Nazzarener/“Salome“ at the Oper Köln. In 2021 he returned to Vienna with Sarastro/“Magic Flute“.
„Corona“ prevented his return to Opera National de Paris with „Capriccio“, Volksoper Wien with Sarastro/“Zauberflöte“ and Oper Köln with „Beatrice et Bénédict“ (made up in 2022).
In the summer of 2023 he will make his debut at the Salzburg Festival – „Greek Passion“.
Future plans include his return to Opéra Paris (1st Nazzarener/”Salome”), he will stay at Deutsche Oper am Rhein.