Timothy Edlin

The English bass-baritone Timothy Edlin began his musical education as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral before continuing his studies at the University of Manchester and later at the Royal College of Music in London. Between 2019 and 2021, he was a member of the OpernStudio NRW, with whom he performed principal roles in opera houses across North Rhine-Westphalia, including Theater Dortmund, Aalto-Theater Essen, Oper Wuppertal, and Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen. Based in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, his operatic and concert engagements take him throughout Germany as well as internationally, with recent and upcoming commitments in the UK, France, Spain, Austria, Malta, and the USA.

His operatic highlights include Il Sagrestano in Tosca and Borella in Die Stumme von Portici with Oper Dortmund; Sprecher and Zweiter Geharnischter in Die Zauberflöte, Johann in Werther, Reinmar in Tannhäuser, Antonio in Le nozze di Figaro, Marchese d’Obigny in La Traviata, and Araldo in Salvatore Sciarrino’s Il canto s’attrista, perché? with Opera Wuppertal and Stadttheater Klagenfurt; Achilla in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, La Rocca in Verdi’s Un giorno di regno, and the title role in Paisiello’s Il re Teodoro in Venezia with Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen; Petrucci in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia with Aalto-Theater Essen; the Abbot in Britten’s Curlew River at Theater Aachen; Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for RCMIOS as well as Snug for Nevill Holt Opera; Officer and Arthur in Peter Maxwell Davies’ The Lighthouse and Badger/Priest in The Cunning Little Vixen for RCMIOS; Teobaldo in Handel’s Faramondo with the London Handel Festival; The Devil in Judith Weir’s The Vanishing Bridegroom and Caliban in Jeremy Sams’ The Enchanted Island with British Youth Opera; and Colline in La Bohème with the Rye Arts Festival.

As a concert, oratorio, and song performer, Timothy has appeared as a soloist in numerous prestigious venues, including Wigmore Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Philharmonie Essen, Konzerthaus Dortmund, and the Chapel of King’s College Cambridge, as well as performing live on BBC Radio 3 from the BBC studios. He is a recent winner of the Salvat Beca Bach competition and has been invited to perform across Spain, including with Masaaki Suzuki as part of the Bachcelona Festival. Other highlights include performing Mauricio Kagel’s Fürst Igor, Strawinsky with members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Foyle Future Firsts at the Royal Festival Hall in London. He was also awarded First Prize in the Royal College of Music’s Concerto Competition, performing Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death (orch. Aho) with the RCM Symphony Orchestra. Timothy is an active song and Lieder recitalist, having appeared at festivals such as the Deal Festival and the Lichfield Festival, as well as in venues across Germany.