Described by Opera News as "Destined for a major career…" Phillip Lopez is generating acclaim in new and classic repertoire across the United States. For the 2026-27 season Mr. Lopez joins the Resident Artist program at Opera San José in the roles of Leporello in Don Giovanni, Edward Teller in Doctor Atomic, and Zuniga in Carmen. He also makes his Opera Lafayette debut as Le Temps/Adonis in Rameau's Les surprises de L'amour in New York City and Washington D.C., restoring the 278-year-old-opera to the stage for the first time since its premier in 1748.
During the 2025-26 season Mr. Lopez performed several roles with the Wichita Grand Opera including Chino in West Side Story and Sid & José Castro in La fanciulla del West. Returning to St. Petersburg, FL, Mr. Lopez performed Curio in Giulio Cesare and Schaunard in La bohème at the St. Petersburg Opera Company. His involvement in a revival of Menotti’s The Last Savage with Odyssey Opera was a major success, and his performance as Abdul can soon be heard on the studio recording produced by Odyssey Opera and the Boston Modern Opera Project. Finally, Mr. Lopez proudly made his Carnegie Hall debut as Bass soloist in Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music with the New England Symphonic Ensemble.
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. Petersburg Opera Company, Zuniga in Carmen with Florida Grand Opera, and The Commentator in Scalia/Ginsburg with Riverside Theatre in Iowa City, IA.
During the 2023-24 season Mr. Lopez made several important debuts including Don Parmenione in L’occasione fa il ladro with Opera Southwest, Emile de Becque in South Pacific 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 of Don Magnifico, Don Pasquale, and Verdi’s Falstaff.
During the 2022-23 season Mr. Lopez joined the Florida Grand Opera Studio premiering a Spanish translation of Il matrimonio secreto as Geronimo, and performing 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 a recital of Die Winterreise while a student of Richard Cross.
During his three summers with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis from 2017-19, he performed several roles including the Imperial Commissioner in Madama Butterfly, 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. Mr. Lopez was a recipient of the Richard Gaddes Festival Artist Award in 2019.
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 while 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 is a winner of the Iowa (2024) and Denver Districts (2022) of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition; he won Second Place at the Upper Midwest Region (2024), and an Encouragement Award in the Rocky Mountain Region (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) as a student of Terry Stone.
Mr. Lopez can be heard performing Gerald Cohen’s Steal a Pencil for Me on Sono Luminus Records (recorded 2022);
Peter Gast: Lieder, released on Toccata Classics (recorded 2023).
Last updated 10/5/2026
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