Described by Opera News as "...destined for a major career," Phillip Lopez is generating great acclaim in new and established repertoire across the United States. For the 2026-27 season Mr. Lopez will act as a Resident Artist at Opera San Jose with the roles of Leporello in Don Giovanni, Edward Teller in Doctor Atomic and Zuniga in Carmen. He will also make his debut with Opera Lafayette as Le Temps/Adonis in Rameau's Les surprises de L'amour in New York City and Washington D.C..
For the 2025-26 season Mr. Lopez performed Chino in West Side Story and Sid/José Castro in La fanciulla del West with Wichita Grand Opera, Curio in Giulio Cesare with the St. Petersburg Opera Company, his company debut with Odyssey Opera as Abdul in The Last Savage, his Carnegie Hall debut as Bass soloist in Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music, and Schaunard in La bohème at the St. Petersburg Opera Company. Mr. Lopez can soon be heard on the studio recording of Menotti's The Last Savage with Odyssey Opera and the Boston Modern Opera Project.
During the 2024-25 season Mr. Lopez performed the world premiere of Dolores as Cesar Chavez with West Edge Opera, Escamillo in Carmen with the St. Pete Opera Company, Zuniga in Carmen at Florida Grand Opera, and The Commentator in Scalia/Ginsburg with Riverside Theatre
During the 2023-24 season Mr. Lopez interpreted the roles of Don Parmenione in L’occasione fa il ladro with Opera Southwest, Emile de Becque in South Pacific in Concert at the Galesburg Orpheum Theatre, Baritone Soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Southwest Michigan Symphony, and Bass Soloist in Mesías en Español with the Phoenix Symphony. In Spring 2024 Mr. Lopez made his Opéra Louisiane debut with Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and then joined the Apprentice Program at Des Moines Metro Opera covering the roles of Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Erster Soldat/Fünfter Jude in Salome. In the Apprentice Program finale of the season he performed scenes as Don Magnifico, Don Pasquale, and Verdi’s Falstaff.
During the 2022-23 season Mr. Lopez joined the Florida Grand Opera Studio performing Geronimo in a Spanish translation of Il matrimonio secreto, Betto in Gianni Schicchi/Buoso’s Ghost, and Angelotti/Jailer in Tosca. As an Apprentice Artist at Chautauqua Opera Company he performed Father in Sankaram’s Thumbprint, and Ulysses S. Grant in Thompson’s The Mother of Us All. Mr. Lopez workshopped Derek Bermel's The House on Mango Street as the Bum Man/Pregón, and premiered the song Learning the Grammar of Animacy by Mary Prescott with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
During the 2021-22 season as an Artist in Residence at Opera Colorado Mr. Lopez performed Zuniga in Carmen, The Senator in Moravec’s The Shining, and Angelotti in Tosca. In the summer of 2021, he performed Masetto in Don Giovanni with Wichita Grand Opera, and made his Central City Opera Debut as Il Conte di Monterone in Rigoletto.
While at the Yale School of Music, Mr. Lopez performed the role of Riolobo in Florencia en el Amazonas, the Bass Soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, and delivered a recital of Die Winterreise as a student of Richard Cross.
During his three summers with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, he made his professional debut in the role of the Imperial Commissioner in Madama Butterfly alongside roles such as Traffic Cop/Peach Checker in Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath, Major Rose/Specialist Austin Haldemann in the world premiere of Ruo's An American Soldier, and Antonio in The Marriage of Figaro.
At Wichita State University he performed the title roles of Gianni Schicchi and Le nozze di Figaro, Frank Maurrant in Street Scene, and Dr. Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore as a student of Alan Held. He has sung Nardo in Die Gärterin aus Liebe with Middlebury College, and Bass Soloist in The Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem with The Wichita Choral Society and Southwestern College.
Mr. Lopez won the Iowa (2024) and Denver Districts (2022) of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition; he won Second Place at the Upper Midwest (2024), and an Encouragement Award in the Rocky Mountain Regions (2022) of the Laffont Competition. Mr. Lopez holds degrees from the Yale School of Music (MMA ‘21), Wichita State University (MM ‘19) and Millikin University (BM ’16).
Mr. Lopez can be heard on the commercial recordings of Gerald Cohen’s Steal a Pencil for Me, released on the Sono Luminus Records Label, recorded 2022; and, Peter Gast: Lieder, released on Toccata Classics, recorded 2023.
Last updated 6/2/2026
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