About

The New York native baritone Stephen Barchi graduated from the renowned Juilliard School of Music and has had extensive artistic experience in Europe and North America.

The list of these experiences tells a correspondingly long and detailed musical story. Most recently he appeared as Marcello in La Bohème with the Rutgers Opera, before that he had the pleasure of working with Theater Aachen where he played Ludovic in La Belle et la Bête by Philip Glass and Dancaïro in Carmen. Stephen has been involved in opera productions in various German cities, including Death in Venice at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Verdi's Don Carlo at Oper Leipzig. He sang Ali in Adina and Cascada in Die Lustige Witwe at Kammeroper Hamburg, which was both a challenge and a big highlight for him as it allowed him to further develop his acting skills.

In the 2016/17 season he had the opportunity to play the role of Nicholas in Barber's Vanessa with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, as well as Aeneas in Purcell's Dido at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Belcore in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Summer Festival in Bad Aibling. 

Stephen is particularly proud of his role as Bluebeard in an avant-garde adaptation of Bartók's Bluebeard’s Castle with the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in cooperation with the Staatsoper Hamburg. He also appeared as Conte Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro with Escales Lyriques. He has also sung frequently at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, for example as the Novice’s Friend in Billy Budd, Moralès in Carmen, Marullo in Rigoletto, Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia and First Priest in Die Zauberflöte. This large, multi-year collaboration with the Deutsche Oper Berlin was made possible and supported by the American-Berlin Scholarship of the Opera Foundation, New York. He was also a resident artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, where he performed, among other things, the title role in Eugene Onegin and the role of Silvano in Un ballo in Maschera.