Philip Kraus

The New York City-born baritone has made a specialty of Verdi’s Falstaff and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, performing both roles to high acclaim at Chicago Opera Theater and Chamber Opera Chicago. Kraus’s versatility encompasses the Viennese (The Gypsy Baron, The Merry Widow, One Night in Venice) and Baroque repertory (Handel’s Dettingen Te Deum, Esther, Judas Maccabaeus, and Cosroe/ Hasse’s Siroe). Among his specialties are the Purcell masques (The Fairy Queen, King Arthur) and the works of Gilbert and Sullivan (Sir Joseph Porter/H.M.S. Pinafore, Major General Stanley/The Pirates of Penzance). Further appearances include Taddeo/L’italiana in Algeri (Hawaii Opera Theatre), the Vicar/ Albert Herring (Cleveland Opera), title role/ Rigoletto (Minnesota Opera), Salieri/Rimsky Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri (Fort Wayne Philharmonic), Douphol/La traviata (with Renée Fleming at Los Angeles Opera, released on DVD), and Mangus/Sir Michael Tippett’s The Knot Garden (American premiere). Kraus is active in the concert hall having made multiple appearances singing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Brahms’s A German Requiem, and Verdi’s Requiem with orchestras throughout the United States. This past November he made his UK debut in recital at Norwich Cathedral.

Previously at Lyric Opera: 24 roles since 1990-91, most recently Notary/Der Rosenkavalier (2015|16); The Bailiff/ Werther (2012|13); Antonio/The Marriage of Figaro (2009|10); Bartolo/ The Barber of Seville (2007|08).

Last updated: February 8, 2016