TEDDY TAHU RHODES – BASS-BARITONE

Teddy Tahu Rhodes has performed with the opera companies of San Francisco, Austin, Washington, Philadelphia, Dallas, Cincinnati, Houston, the Metropolitan Opera, Hamburg Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper-Munich, Theatre du Châtelet-Paris, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera.

Past seasons include Escamillo (Carmen, Hamburg, Paris, Munich, Bilbao, Metropolitan Opera, Opera Australia), Don Giovanni (OA, West Australian Opera), Emille de Bec (South Pacific, OA Australian Tour) and The King and I (OA Australian Tour). Teddy debuted the roles of Méphistophélès (Faust, State Opera South Australia and WA Opera) and Sweeney Todd (Victorian Opera), a concert tour. From Broadway to La Scala (Australia and NZ) and Scarpia (Tosca, WA Opera, Opera NZ). More recently Teddy has performed in William TellandI Capuleti e i Montecchi (Victorian Opera), Titurel (Parsifal, Victorian Opera), Lord Sidney (Il Viaggio a Reims, OA) and Enrico VIII (Anna Bolena, OA)

In 2021 Teddy performed Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Adelaide Festival), Nourabad (LesPêcheurs de Perles, Victorian Opera), and Festival of Outback Opera (Opera Queensland). In 2022, Teddy toured Australia with Josh Piterman and Guy Noble in Concert, was head judge for the Lexus Song Quest in New Zealand, toured with Flautist, Jane Rutter, Jack Rance (La Fanciulla del West, Freeze Frame Opera WA), Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola, Launceston, Victorian Opera) and a series of Christmas Concerts in WA (Freeze Frame Opera).

Awards include an ARIA, two Helpmann Awards, a Limelight Award, a Green Room Award plus an MO Award. Solo discography includes ABC Mozart Arias,The Voice, Vagabond, The Bach Arias, and Mozart Requiem.