Hailed as a "swaggeringly charismatic baritone with a versatile voice,” AMERICAN BARITONE CHARLES H. EATON begins his 2025/2026 season at The Metropolitan Opera, where he will sing the role of Oleskii in a workshop presentation of The Mothers of Kherson, to be premiered in their 2027/2028 season. He makes his company debut with Shreveport Opera in the title role of Don Giovanni, his role and company debut as Sonora in La Fanciulla del West with Wichita Grand Opera, and his company debut with Amelia Island Opera as Gaudenzio and Sam in a double bill of Il Signor Bruschino and Trouble in Tahiti (respectively).

Charles returned to Wolf Trap Opera in the summer of 2025 as a Filene Artist to make role debuts as Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro, Dancaïre in Carmen, and his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra as baritone soloist in Carmina Burana. His portrayal of Il Conte was praised by Opera News, who stated that “his singing was excellent, displaying fluid and meaningful phrasing as well as an effortless delivery.” His 2024/2025 season also included a return to Minnesota Opera for his role debut as Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, a role and company debut as Silvio in Pagliacci with Pensacola Opera, and a debut of the title role in Don Giovanni with Madison Opera.

In the summer of 2024, Mr. Eaton made his company and role debut as Brother in Seven Deadly Sins at Wolf Trap Opera. His subsequent role debut in Silent Night garnered the following praise from Washington Post: “...my favorite performance came from baritone Charles H. Eaton, whose Ponchel was powerfully sung, endearingly acted and endowed with an easy humanity…” He also returned to the prestigious Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall as baritone soloist in the Duruflé Requiem. 

Charles graduated the Minnesota Opera Resident Artist program in the spring of 2024, where he received great acclaim for his “beautiful, deep voice” and “astonishingly chameleonic” performances as Sam in Trouble in Tahiti, Schaunard in La bohème, Argante in Rinaldo, and Masetto in Don Giovanni. Mr. Eaton made his Carnegie Hall debut in the summer of 2023 as the baritone soloist in the Fauré Requiem, and received third place in the Houston Saengerbund Competition.

Other notable engagements include Moralès in Minnesota Opera’s new production of Carmen directed by Denyce Graves, Marcello in La Bohème with the Imperial Symphony Orchestra, the English Ambassador in The Ghosts of Versailles with the Château de Versailles Spectacles, and Carl Magnus in A Little Night Music with Madison Opera.

In addition to Wolf Trap Opera and Minnesota Opera, Charles is a graduate of programs at The Glimmerglass Festival (2018, 2019), Opera Colorado (2015-2017), and Des Moines Metro Opera (2016, 2017). He received his Bachelor of Music in 2013 from the University of Connecticut, and his Masters of Music in 2015 from the University of Minnesota. 

He was a third place winner in the 2023 Houston Saengerbund Competition, a third place winner in the 2021 Lotte Lenya Competition, a second place winner of the 2019 American Prize Competition, and a district winner of the 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Competition.