Hong-Kong born British bass-baritone Freddie Tong has built a reputation as a leading singing-actor of repertoire ranging from traditional buffo characters to the most dramatic bass-baritone roles.
Operatic engagements include Nourabad/The Pearl Fishers, The Cardinal/The Duchess of Malfi and Monterone/Rigoletto (English National Opera); Dr Bartolo/Il barbiere di Siviglia and Dulcamara/L’elisir d’amore (Grange Park Opera); Masetto/Don Giovanni (Opera Holland Park); Raimondo/Lucia di Lammermoor, Sparafucile/ Rigoletto, Timur/Turandot and Ferrando/Il trovatore (Musica Viva Hong Kong); Colline/ La bohème, Der Sprecher/Die Zauberflöte and Angelotti/Tosca (Opera Hong Kong); Angelotti/ Tosca and Don Basilio/Il barbiere di Siviglia (Diva Opera UK); and the Bong Tree in Anne Dudley’s The Owl and the Pussycat for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Recent engagements include Alberich/ Siegfried and Götterdämmerung for Grimeborn Opera Festival; Hunding/Die Walküre for Longborough Festival Opera; the Councilman in Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Edinburgh International Festival with Scottish Opera, and later on tour to the Adelaide Festival, Australia. Freddie studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, later undertaking postgraduate studies at its prestigious Opera School.