Hailed by Opera News for his “comedic high jinks” and “first-rate singing,” Philip Cokorinos was winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1985 and went on to sing his début during the Met’s 1987-1988 season. Since then, he appeared in more than 400 performances of 40 operas at the Met, including “Live from the Met” telecasts of Don Giovanni; the world premiere of The Ghosts of Versailles; and the Met’s premieres of Sly, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Gambler, and Shostakovich’s verismo expressionist opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, to name a few. He appeared many times in their productions of the standard repertoire, including Tosca, La bohème, La fanciulla del West, La Traviata, Adriana Lecouvreur, La rondine, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Macbeth, Manon, Don Carlo, Tosca, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Gianni Schicchi, Manon Lescaut, and Le nozze di Figaro. The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcasts have included Manon, La fanciulla del West, The Nose, Werther, Manon Lescaut, Le nozze di Figaro, La bohème, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Mr. Cokorinos’s tenure at the Metropolitan Opera has recently included their productions of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, La bohème, and Tosca.

Last season, Mr. Cokorinos joined The Atlanta Opera and the Pacific Symphony as Benoit/Alcindoro in La bohème, Anchorage Opera as Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amor and San Francisco Opera to cover the role, New York City Opera as Frère Laurent in Roméo et Juliette, and On Site Opera as Schlendrian in their English translation of Bach’s Coffee Cantata. This season he returns to The Atlanta Opera to reprise Benoit/Alcindoro and to the Metropolitan Opera to cover Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro.