Noted by Opera Canada as a "rising star to watch", Alberta-born soprano Sydney Baedke has been described as possessing an “impressively rich” and "exquisitely lyric" instrument (London Unattached, The Guardian). Her career has seen emerging and principal artist engagements across Canada, the United States, and Europe. Lauded as “a singer to be reckoned with” (Times Colonist), she is making a name for herself as an artist of distinction in a wide breadth of repertoire.

Recent appearances include her role and company debut as a “well-projected, vocally pure, and moving” Contessa Almaviva (Opera News) for Pacific Opera Victoria’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and Ma Zegner in Mazzoli’s Proving Up with Ammolite Opera. She also appeared as the soprano soloist in Bruckner’s Te Deum in her Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra debut, appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall and the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and won 1st prize in Edmonton Opera’s prestigious Rumbold Vocal Prize Competition. This upcoming season, she returns to Montréal’s Maison Symphonique for her role debut as Liu in Puccini’s Turandot, joins the Windsor Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, and the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra for a concert presentation of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

Additionally, 2023/24 saw Sydney perform staples of her repertoire as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Handel’s Messiah with Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes and Orchestre Classique de Montréal respectively. She reprised both works in 2024/25, for Ensemble Caprice’s Beethoven Nine and Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra’s Messiah.

Sydney’s 2022/23 season included her debut at London's Royal Opera House in Oliver Mears' critically acclaimed production of The Rape of Lucretia co-produced with Britten Pears Arts, for which she was praised for her "passionate & hauntingly sad" and "unmistakably moving" portrayal of the Female Chorus (Plays to See, Opera Today), as well as her debut as Musetta in La bohème with Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes at Montreal’s Maison Symphonique, for which she was hailed as a “revelation” for her “agile & seductive voice, projected with notorious assurance, strength, & efficiency”. (Le Devoir, Atuvu.ca) Additional engagements included debuts with the Aldeburgh Festival, where she premiered a newly discovered work by Benjamin Britten through her ongoing young artist partnership with Britten Pears Arts, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and her role debut as Mimì (La bohème) with ICAV & Orchestre Classique de Montréal.

Named one of Canada’s top emerging musicians under 30 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney spent the 2021 summer season as a member of the renowned Apprentice Program for Singers at the Santa Fe Opera, where she covered Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and appeared as Antonia in an excerpt from Les Contes d’Hoffmann. 2021 also saw Sydney star in the title role of Brott Opera’s abridged production of Estacio's iconic Canadian opera, Filumena. Additional Canadian appearances include her debut with Opera on the Avalon as Beatrice in Heggie's Three Decembers, and appearances as the soprano soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Handel’s Messiah with the Brott Music Festival.

September 2025
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