He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Fourth Gambler in The Gambler and has returned for Ostasio in Francesca da Rimini and previous performances of roles in The Nose as well as for the company’s productions of Die Frau ohne Schatten, La traviata, Roméo et Juliette, Das Rheingold, and Capriccio. He has sung Leporello in Don Giovanni and Maestro in Salieri’s Prima la musica, poi le parole with Opera Fuoco under the baton of David Stern.

Gallen and Oper Frankfurt, Scarpia in Tosca with Seattle Opera and Opera Grand Rapids Lieutenant Horstmayer in the European premiere of Putz’s Silent Night at the Wexford Opera Festival and various roles in The Nose at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as well as with Opéra de Lyon. Recent performances include the title role of Wozzeck with New Israeli Opera, Simone in Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie with Greek National Opera, Pizarro in Fidelio with English National Opera, the Gamekeeper in Rusalka with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Tomsky in Pique Dame with the Komische Oper Berlin, Mandryka in Arabella with Theater St.

He recently joined both the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Capulet in Roméo et Juliette, the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Panthée in Les Troyens and for Das Rheingold, the Orlando Philharmonic for Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, and San Francisco Opera for Kothner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, while also being responsible for Hans Sachs. He also returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for the Tutor, while also being responsible for Orest, in Elektra, and to the Metropolitan Opera for their productions of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. Last season he joined San Francisco Opera as the Game Keeper in Rusalka, in addition to joining them for their productions of Tosca and Arabella. Hailed by Opera News for a “theatrical intensity was harmonized by sheer vocal beauty” in his first performances of Orest in Elektra, Philip Horst returns to San Francisco Opera as Redburn in Billy Budd, makes his debut at Ópera de Bellas Artes, Mexico City as the Villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann, and also returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for their productions of Die Walküre and Siegfried in the 2019/20 season.

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