Artist Biography

Share our news with a friend


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, OA), Don Giovanni (OA, WA Opera), Emille de Bec (South Pacific, OA Australian Tour) and The King and I (OA Australian Tour). Teddy debuted the roles of Méphistophélès (Faust, SOSA 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 Tell and I Capuleti ei Montecchi (Victorian Opera), Titurel (Parsifal, Victorian Opera), Lord Sidney (Il Viaggio a Reims, OA) and Enrico VIII (Anna Bolena, OA).

Most recentlyTeddy performed Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Adelaide Festival), Nourabad (Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Victorian Opera), Festival of Outback Opera (Opera Qld), he 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), a series of Christmas Concerts in WA (Freeze Frame Opera), Opera by the Lake, Opera in the Quarry, Mozart Requiem, Capriccio (Victorian Opera) an Australian concert tour with Guy Noble, The Piolot (The Little Prince Freeze Frame Opera), St Matthew Passion with Perth Symphonic Chorus, Elijah with Sydney Symphony Choir and Rambaldo (La Rondine, Victorian 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.

In 2024 Teddy has been appointed to the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music where he will play a leading role in its Classical Voice department as a teacher and mentor.