Recent concert engagements have included Handel's Messiah with Harmonia Orchestra & Chorus, the Bremerton Symphony and the Federal Way Symphony, Spectrum Dance Theater's acclaimed production of Carmina Burana as well as Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Early Music Vancouver/Pacific Musicworks, conducted by Stephen Stubbs. Gobineau in The Medium in October 2022. In October 2019 he made his role debut as Belcore in The Elixir Of Love with Tacoma Opera, where he has appeared in numerous roles such as Moralés/Le Dancaïre in Carmen, Tiger Brown in The Threeepenny Opera, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, Schaunard in La Boheme and the Pirate King in The Pirates Of Penzance. Other recent roles have included Masetto in Don Giovanni with Opera Idaho, where he also sang Papageno to great acclaim, and performing the roles of Prince Yamadori and the Imperial Commissioner in Madama Butterfly with Inland Northwest Opera. In the 2021-22 season, he returns to Opera Idaho as both the baritone soloist in its inaugural Opera In The Park and as Jim Crowley in An American Dream. He also joins Nashville Opera for Opera On The Mountain and as Mr. Born and raised in Tacoma, WA, baritone Ryan Christopher Bede made his Seattle Opera solo debut in May 2017 as the Second Priest in The Magic Flute, followed by Prince Yamadori in Madama Butterfly, Jim Crowley in An American Dream and Fiorello in The Barber Of Seville in the 2017-18 season. He returned as Moralés in Paul Curran's acclaimed production of Carmen in May 2019, and in May 2021 as the Jailer in Dan Wallace Miller's film version of Tosca.

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