In the 2019-20 season, Ms. Phillips will return to the Metropolitan Opera for a twelfth consecutive season to sing the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro and make her role debut in the title role of Kát'a Kabanová. She will also reprise Musetta in La bohème with the company. Additionally, she will return to Opera Theatre of St. Louis to make her role debut in the title role of Floyd’s Susannah. In concert, Ms. Phillips will sing the Messiah with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Jane Glover, as well as Adams’ El Niño with the Houston Symphony under the baton of David Robertson.
In the 2018-19 season, Ms. Phillips returned to the Metropolitan Opera to make her role debut as Micaela in Carmen. She also sang Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Musetta in La bohème there as well. In addition, Ms. Phillips sang the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at Cincinnati Opera. On the symphonic front, Ms. Phillips performed and recorded Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder with the San Francisco Symphony, led by Michael Tilson Thomas, and appeared in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Ravel’s Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé at La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest. Ms. Phillips appeared at the Aspen Music Festival, and gave a solo recital at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York City.
Highlights of Ms. Phillips’s previous opera seasons include performances at the Metropolitan Opera as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Rosalinde in a new production of Die Fledermaus, and Clémence in the Met premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin. Internationally, she made debuts at the Gran Teatro del Liceu as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and at Opernhaus Zürich and Opera Frankfurt as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.
Highly in demand by the world’s most prestigious orchestras, Ms. Phillips has appeared with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others. She has also sung the title role of Agrippina, as well as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, with Boston Baroque.
An avid chamber music collaborator, Ms. Phillips recently teamed with bass-baritone Eric Owens for a recital of all Schubert which they have taken on tour in Chicago with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at the Gilmore Festival, and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and made her solo recital debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall with pianist Myra Huang.
A native of Huntsville, Alabama, over 400 people traveled from her hometown to New York City in December 2008 for Ms. Phillips’ Metropolitan Opera debut in La bohème. She returns frequently to her native state for recitals and orchestral appearances.
