Ned Keene – Peter Grimes, The Metropolitan Opera
“Making his met debut as Ned Keene, Teddy Tahu Rhodes was smooth and rich. It will be good to hear him in larger roles.”
Jay Nordlinger, New York Sun, March 2008
“Most striking was Teddy Tahu Rhodes, making his Met debut as Ned Keene. This young New Zealand baritone has generated a lot of buzz for his good looks, but it was his full, healthy singing that stole the show.”
Anne Midgette, Washington Post, March 2008
“There was a notable debut by the New Zealand baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, robust-voiced and swaggering as Ned Keene, the apothecary who peddles quack remedies to his neighbours.”
Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, March 2008
“And the young New Zealander baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, who has won something of an Internet following for his bare-chested outings as Don Giovanni and Billy Budd, made a major Met début as Ned Keene, turning heads solely with his beautiful, room-filling voice.”
Alex Ross, The New Yorker, March 2008
“Teddy Tahu Rhodes makes a dapper debut as the schemer Ned Keene”.
Martin Bernheimer, Financial Times, March 2008
“The evening’s most stunning vocal performance, though, came from baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, who has been inexplicably absent from San Francisco ever since his unforgettable 2000 debut as Joe de Rocher in the second cast of Jake Heggie’s “Dead Man Walking.” Rhodes combined robust singing with an alarmingly charismatic stage presence to make a usually minor character – the village apothecary Ned Keene – seem like a central focus of the drama.”
Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, March 2008