About Stephen Barchi
Music. Words.
Human stories.
Born in New York, at home in Berlin: Stephen Barchi is a baritone drawn to the stories within an operatic role, a song or a concert programme.
New YorkThe Juilliard School · Bachelor of Music
PhiladelphiaAcademy of Vocal Arts · Resident Artist
BerlinA musical home since 2013
Opera & music theatre
A life on stage.
Stephen’s path has taken him from The Juilliard School and the Academy of Vocal Arts to opera stages in Germany and abroad. Between 2013 and 2019, he appeared regularly at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, including as the Novice’s Friend in Billy Budd, Moralès in Carmen, Marullo in Rigoletto and Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia. In 2017, he sang Aeneas in Michael Hirsch’s Dido at the Tischlerei, combining Hirsch’s Didone abbandonata with his reworking of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Further engagements have taken him to Theater Aachen, Oper Leipzig and Kammeroper Hamburg. His roles include Dancaïro in Carmen, Ludovic in Philip Glass’s La Belle et la Bête and Rambaldo in La rondine. In 2023, he returned to New Jersey as Marcello in La Bohème with Rutgers Opera.
Music of the 20th and 21st centuries is an important part of his repertoire: Hannah Before in Laura Kaminsky’s As One, Nicholas in Barber’s Vanessa with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under David Zinman, and the title role in a chamber version of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle at Hamburg State Opera’s opera stabile.
2025–2026
Recent appearances.
Pimpinone
Title role · Theater Putbus · September 2026
Brücken der Musik – Gemeinsam statt einsam
MusiquEleganz
Winterreise
Schubert’s complete song cycle · Bode-Museum · Yuko Tomeda, piano
Schule trifft Oper
Clock and Cat in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges · MusiquEleganz
Concert & song
Closer to the music.
Song and chamber music are central to his work with the Berliner Schlosskonzerte, including performances at the Bode-Museum and Potsdam Schlosstheater. His repertoire ranges from Telemann’s Pimpinone and Schubert’s Winterreise to Bach, Schumann and oratorio.
In December 2025, he sang Bach’s Cantata BWV 36 and Johann Ludwig Bach’s Mache dich auf, werde Licht with Isabel Pauer at the Adventkirche. He also sings with the Berlin ensemble Die Goldvögel; an October 2025 engagement with Opera Dinners took him to Scott’s Richmond in London.
See upcoming performancesSharing the craft.
Alongside his performing career, Stephen teaches singing at REDUTA Schauspielschule Berlin and the Musik- und Kunstschule Berlin | Atelier der Sinne. His private singing lessons connect vocal technique with language, interpretation and musical expression.
About
New York-born baritone Stephen Barchi makes his home in Berlin, bringing together opera, concert and song with a commitment to the words and stories behind the music. He trained at the Juilliard School and the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and has lived in Berlin since 2013.
At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he has sung Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and the Novice’s Friend in Britten’s Billy Budd, alongside appearances in Carmen, Rigoletto, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Die Zauberflöte. His engagements have also taken him to Theater Aachen as Dancaïro in Carmen and Ludovic in Philip Glass’s La Belle et la Bête, to Oper Leipzig for Don Carlo, and to the Kammeroper Hamburg as Ali in Adina and Cascada in Die lustige Witwe.
His twentieth-century repertoire includes Nicholas in Barber’s Vanessa with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the title role in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle in a collaboration between the Theaterakademie Hamburg and the Staatsoper Hamburg. In 2023, he returned to the United States to sing Marcello in La Bohème with Rutgers Opera in New Jersey.
Song and chamber music are central to his work with the Berliner Schlosskonzerte, where his repertoire ranges from Telemann’s Pimpinone to Schubert’s Winterreise. He has performed at the Bode Museum and the Potsdam Schlosstheater, appears as an oratorio soloist, and sings with the Berlin ensemble Die Goldvögel.
Alongside his performing career, Stephen teaches singing at REDUTA Schauspielschule Berlin and at the Musik- und Kunstschule Berlin | Atelier der Sinne. His private singing lessons connect vocal technique with language, interpretation and musical expression.
