Stephen Marsh

Stephen J. Marsh is an Australian baritone who made his professional debut in Victorian Opera’s Sleeping Beauty in 2017 and was a developing artist with the company for both the 2017/2018 seasons. He has since performed more than 15 roles with the company, including Olivier (Capriccio), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Zurga (Les Pêcheurs de Perles), The Tin Man (Il Mago di Oz), The Woodcutter (Sleeping Beauty), and The Giant (The Selfish Giant) by Simon Bruckard and Emma Muir-Smith.

In 2023, Stephen received the Deutsche Oper Berlin Award from the Opera Foundation for Young Australians. He joined the Deutsche Oper ensemble for the 24/25 opera season after making his Edinburgh International Festival debut as Olivier in Capriccio under the baton of Alexander Soddy.

In 2021, he made his European debut as Marcello in La bohème under the baton of James Gaffigan at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. He has performed with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.

Stephen was a scholar with Melba Opera Trust in 2018 and 2019 and was an inaugural member of Melbourne Opera’s Richard Divall Emerging Artists Program. A multi-award winner, Stephen received the inaugural Victorian Opera’s Michael Stubbs and Malcolm Roberts Opera Prize, as well as the Family of the Late Frederick R Davidson Opera Award. He also won an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Scholarship, Creative Australia’s Sir Robert Askin Operatic Scholarship, the John and Anne Duncan Opera Award, and was named the 2018 Melbourne Welsh Male Choir Singer of the Year.