Deborah Sanders

Arts Management

Phillip Bullock

Baritone

This season, American baritone Phillip Bullock returns to Virginia Opera where he showcases his talent for new music in the role of Theoliver “Jake” Jeter Loving vs. Virginia in Damien Jeter’s world premiere. He continues as a Resident Singer with American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice 2023–2025 cycle, led by Artistic Director Steven Osgood. Last season included his debut with PEAK Performances as Derrick Wheatt Blind Injustice, a role he revives in February at Lincoln Center with MasterVoices.

Recent engagements include his appearances as Zodzetrick in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha

in his return to Cincinnati Opera where he sang the roles of Cato and Watchman in Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s new critically acclaimed opera, Castor and Patience, voted the Best New Opera of 2022 by The New York Times.  Additionally, he premiered Diane White-Clayton’s commissioned work Many Mansions with Boston Landmarks Orchestra, and he joined American Opera Projects for Composers and the Voice: Six Scenes as well as appearing in Long Beach Opera’s The Romance of the Rose, written by Pulitzer nominee Kate Soper and directed by James Darrah.

“Phillip Bullock’s supple baritone voice was alternatively playful, authoritative, and threatening as Grégorio.”

Jacqueline Wilson Lucas DC Metro Theatre Arts

 

“Phillip Bullock, a baritone with a striking falsetto, presented the God of Love as evil genius setting the whole thing in motion for his own amusement.”

MARK SWED – Los Angeles Times

 

“Phillip Bullock, who only the night before was singing falsetto as the God of Love in Romance of the Rose at Long beach opera, switched on his rich baritone to produce what was easily the most commanding performance I’ve heard in this role.”

Richard Ginell, Musical America

“Phillip Bullock was appealingly sleazy in his “man-you-love-to-hate” turn as the conjurer Zodzetrick. His loose limbed, unctuous physical presence was wedded to a buzzy baritone of substantial ping and presence.”

James Sohre, Opera Today

Bizet                 Carmen (Morales, Escamillo*)

Donizetti           L’Elisir d’Amore (Belcore)

Gershwin          Porgy & Bess (Jake, Jim)

Gounod            Roméo et Juilette (Gregorio, Paris, Mercutio*)

                           Faust (Wagner, Valentine*)

 Joplin               Treemonisha (Zodzetrick)

Menotti            Amahl & the Night Visitors (Balthazar)

Mozart             Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro, Antonio, Count Almaviva*)

                           Die Zauberflöte (Papageno)

 Puccini             La Bohème (Marcello*, Custom Sergent)

                            La Fanciulla del West (Jake Wallace, Sonora*)

                           Tosca (Angelotti)

 Soper               Romance of the Rose (God of Love)

 Spears             Castor & Patience (Cato, Watchman)

 Verdi               La Traviata (Marquis)

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