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SYDNEY BAEDKE

SOPRANO

“Baedke’s voice is luminously clear and round. Her solid musicianship was evident in her delicately spun phrases and dramatically powerful climactic moments. Her singing conveyed the emotional impact of a Puccini aria while her three songs by Liszt displayed as sweet and pure a soprano sound as I have heard in some time.”
- Toronto Concert Reviews

about.

Noted by Opera Canada as a "rising star to watch", Canadian soprano Sydney Baedke has been described as possessing an “impressively rich” and "exquisitely lyric" instrument (London Unattached, The Guardian). Her career has seen emerging and principal artist engagements across Canada, the United States, and Europe. Lauded as “a singer to be reckoned with” (Times Colonist) she is making a name for herself as an artist of distinction in a wide breadth of repertoire.

 

Recent appearances include her role and company debut as a “well-projected, vocally pure, and moving” Contessa Almaviva (Opera Magazine) for Pacific Opera Victoria’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and Ma Zegner in Mazzoli’s Proving Up with Ammolite Opera. She also appeared as the soprano soloist in Bruckner’s Te Deum in her Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra debut, appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall and the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and won 1st prize in Edmonton Opera’s prestigious 2023/24 Rumbold Vocal Prize Competition.

Additionally, 2023/24 saw Sydney perform staples of her repertoire as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Handel’s Messiah with Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes and Orchestre Classique de Montréal respectively. She looks forward to reprising both works in 2024/25, for Ensemble Caprice’s Beethoven Nine in her Québec City debut at Palais Montcalm and Montréal’s Maison Symphonique, as well as her debut with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra for Messiah.

 

Sydney's 2022/23 season comprised of successful role & company debuts, including her debut at London' Royal Opera House in Oliver Mears' critically acclaimed production of The Rape of Lucretia co-produced with Britten Pears Arts, for which she was praised for her "passionate & hauntingly sad" and "unmistakeably moving" portrayal of the Female Chorus (Plays to See, Opera Today), as well as her debut as Musetta in La bohème with Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes at Montreal’s Maison Symphonique, for which she was hailed as a “revelation” for her “agile & seductive voice, projected with notorious assurance, strength, & efficiency”. (Le Devoir, Atuvu.ca) Additional recent engagements include her role debut as Mimì (La bohème) with ICAV and Orchestre Classique de Montréal, and her Aldeburgh Festival debut, where she was honored to premiere a recently discovered work by Benjamin Britten through her ongoing young artist partnership with Britten Pears Arts.

Named one of Canada’s top emerging musicians under 30 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney was a 2021 Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artist, covering Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and appearing as Antonia in an excerpt from Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Canadian debuts include Beatrice in Heggie's Three Decembers at Opera on the Avalon and starring in the title role of Brott Opera’s digital, abridged 2021 production of Estacio's iconic Canadian opera, Filumena. She made her professional debut in 2019 as La Fortuna & Valletto in Tim Albery’s critically acclaimed production of Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where she also covered Gilda in Rigoletto as a member of the Gerdine Young Artist Program.

Sydney is a Regional Finalist & three-time prize winner at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was a 2019/20 member of the Royal Conservatory of Music's Rebanks Family Fellowship Program. She is on the roster of Dean Artists Management

"No one sang better than soprano Sydney Baedke [as Countess Almaviva]. Baedke made the character otherworldly, almost heavenly, giving The Marriage of Figaro a sense of pathos luminating the earthly rabble-rousing down below.

 

The all-too-brief Porgi amor was notable for the singer’s exquisite legato phrasing. Immediately we realize this was a singer to be reckoned with. The famous Dove Sono was equally impressive, with Baedke revealing a sweet, pure voice that projected thrillingly."

 
for Le Nozze di Figaro, Pacific Opera Victoria
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listen.

Is it All? (Excerpt)The Rape of Lucretia, Royal Opera House (audio courtesy of the BBC)
00:00 / 01:36

Featuring artists of the Aurora Orchestra conducted by Corinna Niemeyer

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upcoming
engagements.

HANDEL'S
Messiah

DECEMBER 13, 15 2024

Soprano Soloist 

HAMILTON PHILHARMONIC

St. Catherine of Siena Church

Hamilton

BEETHOVEN'S
Ninth

FEBRUARY 14, 16 2025

Soprano Soloist

ENSEMBLE CAPRICE 

Maison Symphonique

Palais Montcalm
Montreal, Quebec City

ECSTATIC
Voices

November 22, 23, 2024

Ensemble 

WEST END MICRO MUSIC FESTIVAL

1691 Bloor Street West

Toronto

LA BOHÈME
Mimì, Musetta

LA CALISTO
Calisto

CARMEN

Frasquita

DON GIOVANNI

Donna Anna


EUGENE ONEGIN
Tatyana

FILUMENA
Filumena

 

repertoire.

(performed/covered)

GIANNI SCHICCHI

Lauretta

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Contessa Almaviva

THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA

Female Chorus

PROVING UP
Ma Zegner

RIGOLETTO
Gilda

SWEENEY TODD
Johanna

THREE DECEMBERS

Beatrice

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DEAN ARTISTS MANAGEMENT

Sydney joins the roster of Dean Artists Management, Canada's most established agency managing classically trained singers. 

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RUMBOLD VOCAL PRIZE

Sydney competed in & won first prize in the 2023 Edmonton Opera Rumbold Vocal Prize Competition. 

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BRITTEN PEARS YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM

Sydney joins the Britten Pears Foundation as a member of the 2022/23 young artist cohort, involving several projects including her debut at London's Royal Opera House. 

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Morgan Reid
Director of Opera Division 
morgan@deanartists.com 416-969-7300 x 303

Henry Ingram

Managing Director, 

Director of Concerts Division

henry@deanartists.com 416-969-7300 x 304

Loren Graziano

Associate Manager (Opera & Concert)
loren@deanartists.com 416-969-7300 x301

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