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Phillip Addis

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Canadian baritone Phillip Addis is best known as the ideal Pelléas of his generation, a role he sang with opera companies and orchestras in Modena, Piacenza, Parma, Luxemburg, Cincinnati, Dresden, Bochum, Hamburg, Paris and London. He is as renowned for his Count Almaviva Le Nozze di Figaro whom he has portrayed in over a dozen different productions worldwide.

Current season engagements include Sharpless Madama Butterfly at Calgary Opera, his home company, Messiah in his return to Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, Count Almaviva at Manitoba Opera and both Messiah and Carmina Burana with Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

Recent season highlights include the title role Don Giovanni, Malatesta Don Pasquale and Marco Gianni Schicci at Calgary Opera, Zurga Les pêcheurs de perles with Vancouver Opera; he made role debuts as Don Alfonso Così fan tutte with Pacific Opera Victoria and as Sharpless with Opéra de Québec; other recent engagements include Count Almaviva at Calgary Opera as well as his first Malatesta at Vancouver Opera. Orchestral engagements took the artist to Calgary Philharmonic (Carmina Burana) and Orchestre Classique De Montréal for Messiah.

In 2022-23 he performed Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestre Classique de Montréal, Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, Early Music Voices Concert Society in Calgary and Orchestre Symphonique de TroisRivières; as well as Bruckner’s Te Deum/Stephanie Martin’s Water with the Grand Philharmonic Choir.

In 2021 Mr Addis appeared as the Count Le nozze di Figaro at Opéra de Lausanne and Opéra Royal de Versailles. He also starred in the Rai5 live broadcast of the new Barbe&Doucet production of Pelléas et Mélisande from Teatro Regio di Parma.

Additional leading roles include the title roles in Eugene Onegin at Calgary Opera and Don Giovanni at Edmonton Opera, where he also appeared as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, as well as Papageno Die Zauberflöte and Marcello La Bohème with Canadian Opera Company. Notable successes in the French repertoire include the title role Werther at l’Opéra de Montréal, as Jaufré L’amour de loin at Festival d'Opéra de Québec and Vlaamse Oper, as Zurga with Vancouver Opera and l’Opéra de Montréal, and as Frère Léon in the award-winning St. François d’Assise with the Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra.

Mr. Addis balances his operatic career with extensive concert experience. He was the baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with Toronto Symphony Orchestra, in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, in Britten’s War Requiem at Cincinnati May Festival and at the Britten LA/100 Festival, as well as the world premiere of Scott Good’s The Sleepers with London Sinfonia. He has appeared with eminent conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, James Conlon, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Seiji Ozawa, Kent Nagano, Carlo Rizzi, and Sylvain Cambreling. 

With a passion for the art song repertoire, Addis has given recitals with his accompanist, Emily Hamper, at l’Opéra National de Paris, the Canadian Opera Company, Brisbane Music Festival, Orford Arts Centre, Vancouver International Song Institute, and Canadian Art Song Project. 

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