The 2024/25 season marks an exciting new chapter for Theodore Platt as he joins the ensemble of the Copenhagen Opera House, marking a significant milestone in his career. In this capacity, he takes on several important roles, showcasing his versatility as a baritone across different operatic styles. These include his role debut as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Lord Cecil in Maria Stuarda, and his role debut as the titular character Figaro in Gioachino Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. Platt’s concert season includes an appearance with the Eppaner Liedsommer classical music festival in South Tyrol, Italy, where he gives a recital alongside pianist Keval Shah. Under the baton of Roberto Gonzales-Monjas, Theodore Platt presents Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg.
A special highlight of the coming season is the release of his Deutsche Grammophon STAGE+ online recital, featuring work by Jean Sibelius, Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and Benjamin Britten, once again in collaboration with Keval Shah.
Theodore Platt was featured on Jonathan Tetelman’s acclaimed Deutsche Grammophon Album “The Great Puccini” presenting the role of Marcello in excerpts from La bohème. With the Culiner Creative Circle, Platt and Keval Shah produced audio-visual interpretations of Jean Sibelius’ “Var det en Dröm?” and Samuel Barber’s “O boundless, boundless evening” for online release via various streaming platforms.
A sought-after concert singer, the baritone made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2019 as part of Graham Johnson’s Songmakers’ recital series. In 2021, he performed at the Oxford Lieder Festival and at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. In 2018-19, Theodore Platt participated in the inaugural French Song Exchange at Wigmore Hall, working closely with Felicity Lott and François Le Rouxand culminating in recitals in London and Paris. In 2022, he returned to Wigmore for a recital alongside Malcolm Martineau.
Platt is the grateful recipient of prizes from the 64th Kathleen Ferrier Awards, the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, Copenhagen Lied Duo Competition, Lies Askonas Competition, Joan Chissell Schumann Competition. Further, he was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod at Verbier Festival. In 2022, Theodore Platt and Keval Shah won the first prize at the 13th International Art Song Competition Stuttgart. The duo performed works by Franz Schubert, Vivian Fung, Hugo Wolf, Frank Bridge, and Benjamin Britten.
London-born Platt studied Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, and is an alumnus of the Verbier Festival Academy and the Royal College of Music Opera Studio. He attended the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (IMA), which was followed by engagements with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and a Schubert recital including a broadcast on BR-Klassik.