Recent and future engagements for Barnaby Rea include the roles Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Oper Frankfurt and Des Moines Metro Opera, Erster Handweksbursche in Wozzeck at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Colline in La Bohème at the Opera Holland Park, Ananias in The Burning Fiery Furnace and Baron Zeta in Die Lustige Witwe at the Oper Frankfurt, Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Opéra de Rouen, Ratzekahl in Irrelohe at Opéra de Lyon and Mityukha in Boris Godunov at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse.

Previous engagements include Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Edinburgh Festival, Poseidon in Die Odyssee at the Oper Zürich, Hobson in Peter Grimes at Teatro Real Madrid, Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Colline at Opera North and Opera de Guatemala, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Mother in The Seven Deadly Sins at the Scottish Opera, Alcade / Chirurgo in La forza del destino, Der Pfleger des Orest in Elektra at Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Alidoro in La Cenerentola, Bertrand in Iolanta, Zaretsky / Captain in Eugene Onegin, Bonze in Madama Butterfly, Rocco in I Gioielli della Madonna at Opera Holland Park, Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at West Green Opera, Banco in Macbeth at Iford Opera.

He was a member of the Oper Frankfurt ensemble from 2016 to 2020, where roles included Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Soljony in Tri Sestri, Truffaldino, Lord Tristan Mickleford in Martha, Nachtigall in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Pistola in Falstaff, Bosun in Billy Budd, Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin and Hobson in Peter Grimes.

As a Harewood Artist at the English National Opera (2013-2016) roles included Sparafucile, Basilio in The Barber of Seville, Colline, Lodovico in Otello, Nourabad in The Pearl Fishers, Private Willis in Iolantha, and Ben Benny in Paul Bunyan.

Past concert engagements include the BBC Proms, the Bergen, Edinburgh and Ensecu Festivals. Concert venues include London’s Royal Albert, Royal Festival and Queen Elizabeth Halls, the National Concert Hall in Dublin and the Mariinsky Concert Hall in Moscow.

Barnaby trained at the National Opera Studio and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and continues to study with John Evans.