Stuart Skelton

Winner of the 2014 International Opera Awards for Best Male Singer and 2 Helpmann Awards, Stuart Skelton’s repertoire encompasses roles from Wagner's Lohengrin, Parsifal, Rienzi, SiegmundandErik to Strauss’s Kaiserand Bacchus, Janacek’s Laca, Saint-Saens’ Samson, Beethoven's Florestan and Britten’s Peter Grimes.

He appears regularly on the leading concert and operatic stages of the world, including Berlin, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Vienna, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Sydney, with Orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, L.A Philharmonic, London Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, the Radio Symphonies in Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt, the Australian Symphony Orchestras, and at the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh Festival.

He has sung with such acclaimed conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, James Conlon, Sir Andrew Davis, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Christoph Eschenbach, Asher Fisch, Mariss Jansons, Philippe Jordan, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Simon Rattle, David Robertson, Donald Runnicles, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Simone Young and Sir Antonio Pappano.

In 2016 Stuart will open the Metropolitan Opera’s season, singing Tristan in a new production of Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. His recordings include Ring Cycles with Seattle Opera and State Opera of South Australia, Das Lied von der Erde with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven Symphony no. 9 under Sir Charles Mackerras and Oedipus Rex with the LSO and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.