About

New Zealand/British Tenor Aidan Thomas Phillips is an alumus of the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, studying under Iain Paton. Aidan was a student at the New Zealand Opera School (2020-2022), and studied both his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Waikato Conservatorium of Music where he was the recipient of a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship, and graduated in 2023 with BMus (Hons) and MMus (Hons) in Classical Vocal Performance. In the 2025/26 season Aidan will debut the role of Leukippos (Daphne/Edinburgh Players Opera Group)​

Aidan's operatic roles include Don José (Carmen/Clyde Opera Group), Ismaele (Nabucco/Tayside Opera), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte/RCS), Filippo (L’infedelta delusa/RCS), Idomeneo (Idomeneo/RCS) and Adult Albert/Will (Flowing Waters - World Premiere CD Recording/Atoll Records)

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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.