About

New Zealand/British Tenor Aidan Thomas Phillips is an alumnus of the Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Iain Paton, where he performed the title role in Idomeneo (Mozart), Tamino in Die Zäuberflöte (Mozart) and Filippo in L’infedeltà delusa (Haydn). He now studies with Brian Smith Walters. Since graduating earlier this year, he has performed the roles of Don José in Carmen (Bizet) and Ismaele in Nabucco (Verdi) in the Andrew Porter translation. In the 2026/27 season he will perform the role of Turridu in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) with Aria Alba, Věc Makropulos (Janáček) with Edinburgh Players Opera Group and Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) with Longborough Festival Opera.

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Performances in Scenes at RCS include Pelléas (Pelléas et Melisande), Die Hexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Lysander (A Midsummer Night‘s Dream), Scaramuccio (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites).

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Oratorio credits include J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV (Evangelist/Tenor Solos), Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, Handel's Messiah, Brockes-Passion, Utrecht Te Deum & Jubilate, Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ, Missa in Tempori Belli, and Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle.

Also an avid Musical Theatre performer, Aidan's roles include Jamie Wellerstein (The Last Five Years/Tauranga Musical Theatre) and Phantom (The Phantom of the Opera/Theatre Whakatane Inc.) - for which he won Best Actor in a Musical at the 2021 Zony Awards.