Fredrick Redd

[12] One year later, he made his Carnegie Hall mainstage debut as the baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with the New England Symphonic Ensemble in a Mid America Production.

In 2005, Redd returned to Carnegie Hall with New York Grand Opera to perform Giacomo in Verdi’s Giovanna D’Arco and again in 2006 as the baritone soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

In 2022, Redd performed his first Wagner role as Wotan in Das Rheingold [17] and debuted as Hark in the opera Nat Turner by Michael Raphael with the New Jersey Symphony.

[18] Redd returned to Carnegie Hall main stage performances on May 27, 28 and June 30 as soloist in Haydn's Creation, Mozart's Regina Coeli, and Hayes' Requiem.

[20] In October 22, Redd starred as Dom Claude Frollo in the Hunchback of Notre Dame (Equity Off-Broadway) and performed excerpts as the title role in Rigoletto for the Metropolitan Opera Guild and their program series on The Verdi Baritone.

In 2024, Fredrick returned to the main stage of Carnegie Hall as a soloist in the "Ballad of the Brown King" by Margaret Bonds with the New England Symphonic Ensemble.

In April, Fredrick was a soloist with the Rochester Oratorio Society in the US Premier of "Freedom Songe - When Gospel Came to the Empire" at the Fort Hill Performing Arts Center in Canandaigua.

His television and film credits include Great Performances: Live from Lincoln Center: and New York City Opera’s production of Porgy and Bess.

J. Noble, Jr. is of the view that "The villainous Scarpia was sung by baritone Fredrick Redd, whose full-bodied sound completed the triumvirate of principal vocal power."

His performance received positive reviews, with Eugene O'Neil writing that "Director Patrick Casey was fortunate in his choice of Fredrick Redd as the central figure.

His strong yet mellow baritone negotiated the dramatic, vengeful and poignant passages of Verdi with many memorable moments, among them his soulful singing of "Eri tu", towards the end of Act 2.