Hailed by the Globe and Mail as “a brilliant performer,” “with the kind of magnetism that comes from combining realism with exhaustive extremes,” baritone Geoffrey Sirett won the 2018 Dora Award for Outstanding Opera Performance singing the leading role of Akaky in The Overcoat (Canadian Stage, Tapestry Opera, and Vancouver Opera). Sirett has emerged as one of Canada’s finest baritones, in demand across the country for his wide range of operatic and concert repertoire.

Geoffrey’s recent engagements include Orff’s Carmina Burana (Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes), Brahms’ Requiem (Victoria Symphony, Richard Eaton Singers), Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Richard Eaton Singers), Handel’s Brockes Passion (Toronto’s Metropolitan United), Duruflé’s Requiem (Ottawa Choral Society), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Ottawa Bach Choir), and Handel’s Messiah (Ottawa Choral Society).

Past seasons on the concert stage saw engagements with the Toronto Symphony for Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins, Messiah with the Peterborough Singers, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, St. John Passion with both the Ottawa Choral Society and the Elora Singers, Elijah for the Pax Christi Chorale, and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis for the Grand Philharmonic Choir. His repertoire also includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Orchestre symphonique de Drummondville), Bach’s B-Minor Mass (Sweetwater Festival, Ottawa Bach Choir), Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death (Off Centre Music Salon), Damnation of Faust (Calgary Philharmonic) and John Adam’s The Wound Dresser (Victoria Symphony).

In the 2018/2019 season, Sirett made his Canadian Opera Company debut as Welko in Arabella, alongside appearances as Captain Corcoran in Edmonton Opera’s H.M.S. Pinafore, Music & Beyond’s Dido and Aeneas, and Opera Kelowna’s Carmen. Additional operatic credits for Sirett include Puts’ Silent Night (Opéra de Montréal), Wolf-Ferrari’s Il segreto di Susanna (Opera5), Strauss’ Elektra, Puccini’s Turandot, Léhar’s The Merry Widow (all with Edmonton Opera), and the world premieres of Burry’s The Bells of Baddeck, James Rolfe’s Open Road, and Brian Current’s Airline Icarus. Sirett has sung roles in Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Hansel and Gretel, Orlando, Candide, Il mondo della luna, Pagliacci, Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Gianni Schicchi, Albert Herring, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, West Side Story, and The Great Gatsby.

His recital appearances include performances for the Aldeburgh Connection and Bayfield Festival of Song with pianist Stephen Ralls, Van Cliburn Foundation with composer/pianist Ricky Ian Gordon, and the Chautauqua Institution with pianists Craig Rutenberg and Mikael Eliasen. Collaborating with pianist Stephen Ralls, his first solo album Vagabond features the works of Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, and Britten, as well as premiere recordings of Canadian composers Ivan Barbotin and Jocelyn Morlock. Additional recordings include Airline Icarus, an opera by Brian Current, The Heart’s Refuge (Analekta: Theatre of Early Music) and The Vale of Tears (Analekta: Theatre of Early Music).

Geoffrey is the Artistic Director of Kingston’s Cantabile Choirs. Co-producer and music director for the indie opera company Bicycle Opera Project, Geoffrey continues his advocacy for contemporary Canadian music.

September 2025

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