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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