Skinner, Philip
(Castro Valley, California)
2026–27 Season: Lord Gordon, Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots
San Francisco Opera Highlights: Prison Guard in Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally's Dead Man Walking; Lepidus in John Adams' Antony and Cleopatra; Barak's One-Eyed Brother in Die Frau ohne Schatten; Benoit in Bohème Out of the Box; Baron Douphol in La Traviata; Doctor Bartolo in The Barber of Seville; Dansker in Billy Budd; The Duke of Verona in Roméo et Juliette; Geronte di Ravoir in Manon Lescaut
Recent and Upcoming: Doctor in Wozzeck (West Edge Opera); Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Carnegie Hall); Wotan/Gunther in The Legend of the Ring (West Edge Opera); Monterone in Rigoletto (Opera San José); Speaker in The Magic Flute (San José); Benoit/Alcindoro in La Bohème ( San José); Nikititsch in Boris Godunov (San Francisco Symphony); King in Aida (Pacific Symphony); Eric/Ghost of Bazzetti in Jake Heggie's Great Scott (San Diego Opera); Seneca in La Coronazione di Poppea (West Edge Opera); Iago in Otello (Livermore Valley Opera); Ludovic in La Belle et la Bête (Opera Parallèle); Savel Prokofjevic in Kát’a Kabanová (West Edge Opera); King Marke in Tristan und Isolde (Claude Heater Foundation)
Recipient of San Francisco Opera Medal 2022
Adler Fellowship Program 1986, 1987
Merola Opera Program 1985
Instagram: @philipgskinner