A Survey of Baritone Roles
A list of the Repertoire for Baritone. In a readable and organised format.
| Composer | Opera | Role | Type | Aria |
| Auber | Fra Diavolo | Lord Cockburn | ||
| Barber | Vanessa | The Old Doctor | Lyric Baritone | You rascal you! I never knew you had a soul, For ev’ry love there is a last farewell |
| Barber | Anthony and Cleopatra | Mark Anthony | ||
| Beethoven | Fidelio | Don Pizarro | Lyric Low Baritone/Lyric Bass-Baritone | |
| Bellini | I puritani | Sir Riccardo Forth | ||
| Bellini | Il pirata | Ernesto | ||
| Berg | Wozzeck | Wozzeck | ||
| Berlioz | Benvenuto Cellini | Fieramosca | Ah! qui pourrait me résister? | |
| Berlioz | Les Troyens | Chorèbe | ||
| Bizet | Carmen | Escamillo | Dramatic Baritone | |
| Bizet | Carmen | Morales | Lyric Baritone | |
| Bizet | Les pêcheurs de perles | Zurga | Kavalierbariton | L’orage s’est calmé |
| Borodin | Prince Igor | Igor | Dramatic Bass-Baritone/Low Baritone/Heldenbariton | |
| Britten | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Demetrius | Lyric Baritone | |
| Busoni | Doktor Faust | Doktor Faust | ||
| Cilèa | Adriana Lecouvreur | Michonnet | Dramatic Baritone | Ecco il monologo |
| Copland | The Tender Land | Top | Lyric Baritone | Oh, I was goin’ a-courtin’, That’s crazy |
| Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande | Golaud | Lyric Low Baritone/Lyric Bass-Baritone | |
| Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande | Pelléas | Baryton Martin | |
| Donizetti | Don Pasquale | Dr Malatesta | Lyric Baritone | Bella siccome un angelo |
| Donizetti | L’elisir d’amore | Belcore | Lyric Baritone | Come Paride vezzoso |
| Donizetti | La favorita | Alfonse XI | ||
| Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor | Enrico Ashton | Lyric Baritone | Cruda, funesta smania, La pietade in suo favore |
| Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor | Lord Enrico Ashton | KavalierBaritone, Lyric Baritone | Cruda, funesta smania, La pietade in suo favore |
| Donizetti | Lucrezia Borgia | Ascanio Petrucci | ||
| Donizetti | Maria Stuarda | Lord Guglielmo Cecil | ||
| Donizetti | Roberto Devereux | Duke of Nottingham | ||
| Giordano | Andrea Chénier | Gérard | Dramatic Baritone | Compiacente a’ colloqui del cicisbeo . . . Son sessant’anni, Nemico della Patria |
| Giordano | Andrea Chénier | Schmidt | ||
| Giordano | Andrea Chénier | Dumas | ||
| Giordano | Andrea Chénier | Mathieu | ||
| Glass | Nixon in China | Chou En-lai | ||
| Glass | Nixon in China | Richard Nixon | ||
| Gounod | Faust | Mephistophélès | Lyric Low Baritone/Lyric Bass-Baritone | Vous qui faites l’endormie |
| Gounod | Faust | Valentin | Lyric Baritone | Avant de quitter ces lieux |
| Gounod | Roméo et Juliette | Mercutio | Lyric Baritone | Mab, la reine des mensonges |
| Halevy | La Juive | Ruggiero | ||
| Humperdinck | Hänsel und Gretel | Peter | Lyric Baritone | Ach, wir armen Leute!, Eine Hexsteinalt |
| Lehar | The Merry Widow | Baron Mirko Zeta | ||
| Léo Delibes | Lakmé | Frédéic | Lyric Baritone | |
| Leoncavallo | Pagliacci | Tonio | ||
| Leoncavallo | Pagliacci | Silvio | Lyric Baritone | |
| Lortzing | Der Wildschütz | Count von Eberbach | ||
| Marschner | Hans Heiling | Hans Heiling | ||
| Mascagni | Cavalleria rusticana | Alfio | ||
| Massenet | Manon | M. de Brétigny | Kavalierbariton | |
| Massenet | Manon | Lescaut | Lyric Baritone | Ne bronchez pas, O Rosalinde |
| Massenet | Thaïs | Athanaël | ||
| Massenet | Werther | Albert | Lyric Baritone | Quelle priere de reconnaissance |
| Menotti | Amahl and the Night Visitors | King Melchior | Lyric Baritone | |
| Menotti | Amahl and the Night Visitors | The Page | Lyric Baritone | |
| Menotti | The Consul | John Sorel | Lyric Baritone | |
| Meyerbeer | L’Africaine | Nelusko | ||
| Meyerbeer | Les Huguenots | Le Comte de Nevers | ||
| Meyerbeer | Les Huguenots | Le Comte de Saint-Bris | ||
| Monteverdi | L’Orfeo | Orfeo | Baryton Martin | |
| Moore | The Ballad of Baby Doe | Horace Tabor | Lyric Baritone | Warm as the autumn light, Turn tail and run then |
| Mozart | Così fan tutte | Don Alfonso | Lyric Low Baritone/Lyric Bass-Baritone | |
| Mozart | Così fan tutte | Guglielmo | Lyric Baritone | |
| Mozart | Don Giovanni | Don Giovanni | Kavalierbariton | |
| Mozart | Don Giovanni | Masetto | Lyric Baritone | Ho capito, signor, si |
| Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Conte Almaviva | Kavalierbariton, Lyric Baritone | Hai gia vinta la causa…Vedro mentr’io sospiro |
| Mozart | The Magic Flute | Papageno | Lyric Baritone | |
| Mozart | The Marriage of Figaro | Figaro | Lyric Low Baritone/Lyric Bass-Baritone | |
| Mussorgsky | Boris Godunov | Boris Godunov | ||
| Nicolai | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Ford | ||
| Offenbach | Orphée aux enfers | John Styx | ||
| Offenbach | Orphée aux enfers | Jupiter | ||
| Ponchielli | La Gioconda | Barnaba | Kavalierbariton | |
| Poulenc | Dialogue des carmélites | Jailer | ||
| Puccini | Edgar | Frank | Lyric Baritone | |
| Puccini | Gianni Schicchi | Gianni Schicchi | Lyric Baritone | Si corre dal notaio |
| Puccini | Gianni Schicchi | Marco | Lyric Baritone | |
| Puccini | La bohème | Marcello | Lyric Baritone | |
| Puccini | La bohème | Schaunard | Lyric Baritone | |
| Puccini | La fanciulla del West | Jack Wallace | Lyric Baritone | |
| Puccini | La fanciulla del West | Jack Rance | Dramatic Baritone | |
| Puccini | Le Villi | Guglielmo Wulf | Lyric Baritone | Anima santa |
| Puccini | Madama Butterfly | Sharpless | ||
| Puccini | Manon Lescaut | Lescaut | ||
| Puccini | Tosca | Scarpia | Dramatic Baritone | |
| Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | Aeneas | Baryton Martin | |
| Rachmaninoff | Aleko | Aleko | Dramatic Bass-Baritone/Low Baritone/Heldenbariton | |
| Ravel | L’enfant et les sortilèges | Le chat | ||
| Ravel | L’enfant et les sortilèges | L’Horloge Comtoise | Baryton Martin | |
| Ravel | L’heure espagnole | Ramiro | Baryton Martin | |
| Rimsky-Korsakov | The Golden Cockerel | Prince Afron | ||
| Rimsky-Korsakov | The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya | Fyodor Poyarok | ||
| Rossini | Il turco in Italia | Prosdocimo | ||
| Rossini | La Cenerentola | Dandini | Lyric Baritone, Lyric Bass | Come un’ape ne’giorni d’aprile |
| Rossini | Le comte Ory | Raimbaud | ||
| Rossini | Le comte Ory | Tutor | ||
| Rossini | The Barber of Seville | Figaro | Lyric Baritone | Largo al factotum |
| Rossini | William Tell | Guglielmo Tell | ||
| Saint-Saëns | Samson and Delilah | High Priest of Dagon | ||
| Smetana | The Bartered Bride | Krušina | ||
| Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos | Music Master | Lyric Baritone | |
| Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos | Harlequin | Lyric Baritone | Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen |
| Strauss | Capriccio | Count | Kavalierbariton | |
| Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier | Herr von Faninal | ||
| Strauss | Elektra | Orest | ||
| Strauss | Rosenkavalier | Herr von Faninal | Dramatic Baritone | |
| Strauss | Salome | Jochanaan | ||
| Strauss Jr. | Fledermaus | Dr. Falke | ||
| Strauss Jr. | Fledermaus | Frank | ||
| Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin | Eugene Onegin | Lyric Baritone | Onegin’s Aria (Kogda bï zhizn domashnim krugom), Onegin’s Arioso (Uzhel ta samaja Tatiana) |
| Tchaikovsky | Mazeppa | Ivan Mazepa | ||
| Tchaikovsky | Mazeppa | Kochubey | ||
| Tchaikovsky | The Enchantress | Prince Nikita Kurlyatev | ||
| Tchaikovsky | The Maid of Orleans | Dunois | ||
| Tchaikovsky | The Maid of Orleans | Lionel | ||
| Tchaikovsky | The Oprichnik | Prince Vyazminsky | ||
| Tchaikovsky | The Queen of Spades | Count Tomsky | ||
| Tchaikovsky | The Queen of Spades | Prince Yeletsky | ||
| Thomas | Hamlet | Hamlet | Lyric Baritone | Spectre infernal!, Ò vin dissipe la tristesse, J’ai pu frapper, Comme une pâle fleur |
| Verdi | Aida | Amonasro | Verdi Baritone | |
| Verdi | Attila | Ezio | Dramatic Baritone | Dagl’immortali vertici, E’ gettata la mia sorte |
| Verdi | Don Carlos | Rodrigo | Verdi Baritone | L’Infant Carlos, notre espérance (Carlo ch’è sol il nostro amore), C’est mon jour suprème (Per me giunto è il di supreme), Ah, je meurs, l’âme joyeuse (Io morrò, ma lieto in core) |
| Verdi | Ernani | Carlo | Verdi Baritone | |
| Verdi | Ernani | Don Carlo | ||
| Verdi | Falstaff | Falstaff | Verdi Baritone | |
| Verdi | Falstaff | Ford | Verdi Baritone | È sogno? o realtà |
| Verdi | I vespri sicialiani | Guido di Monteforte | ||
| Verdi | Il trovatore | Conte di Luna | Verdi Baritone | |
| Verdi | La forza del destino | Fra Melitone | Lyric Baritone | |
| Verdi | La forza del destino | Don Carlo di Vargas | Verdi Baritone, Lyric Baritone | Son Pereda son ricco d’onore, Morir! Tremenda cosa! . . . Urna fatale del mio destino |
| Verdi | La traviata | Germont | Verdi Baritone, Lyric Baritone | Di Provenza il mar |
| Verdi | Macbeth | Macbeth | Verdi Baritone, Dramatic Baritone | |
| Verdi | Nabucco | Nabucco | Dramatic Baritone | |
| Verdi | Otello | Iago | Dramatic Baritone | |
| Verdi | Rigoletto | Marullo | ||
| Verdi | Rigoletto | Monterone | ||
| Verdi | Rigoletto | Rigoletto | Verdi Baritone | |
| Verdi | Simon Boccanegra | Paolo Albiani | Lyric Baritone | |
| Verdi | Simon Boccanegra | Simon Boccanegra | Verdi Baritone | |
| Verdi | Stiffelio | Count Stankar | ||
| Verdi | Un ballo in maschera | Renato | Verdi Baritone | Alla vita che t’arride, Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima |
| Wagner | Der Ring des Nibelungen | Wotan | Dramatic Bass-Baritone/Low Baritone/Heldenbariton | |
| Wagner | Die Meistersinger | Hans Sachs | Bass-Baritone | |
| Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Hans Sachs | Dramatic Bass-Baritone/Low Baritone/Heldenbariton | |
| Wagner | Lohengrin | The King’s Herald | Lyric Baritone | |
| Wagner | Lohengrin | Friedrich of Telramund | ||
| Wagner | Parsifal | Amfortas | Dramatic Bass-Baritone/Low Baritone/Heldenbariton | |
| Wagner | Siegfried | Alberich | ||
| Wagner | Tannhäuser | Wolfram von Eschenbach | Lyric Baritone | Als du im kühnem Sange uns betrittest, O du mein holder Abendstern, Blick’ ich umher |
| Wagner | The Flying Dutchman | Dutchman | Dramatic Bass-Baritone/Low Baritone/Heldenbariton | |
| Wagner | Tristan und Isolde | Kurwenal | ||
| Weber | Der Freischütz | Kilian | ||
| Weber | Der Freischütz | Ottokar | ||
| Weber | Oberon | Sherasmin | ||
Sources: Wikipedia page Baritone, Aria database Baritone, opera-arias.com Baritone plus my own research.
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