Philip Kraus

Quick Facts

Full Name	Philip Kraus
Occupation	Baritone
Date Of Birth	Nov 17, 1950(1950-11-17)
Age	74
Birthplace	United States
Country	United States
Horoscope	Scorpio

Philip Kraus Biography

Philip Kraus is one of the most popular and richest Baritone who was born on November 17, 1950 in United States, United States.

Kraus began a long association as soloist with the Grant Park Concerts in Chicago in 1979, performing Haydn’s Mass in Time of War under conductor Thomas Peck. He followed this singing Elgar’s The Kingdom, under Leonard Slatkin, in

1981. Kraus went on to sing with other American orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and many others, working with conductors Erich Leinsdorf, Eduardo Mata, Zdeněk Mácal, Andrew Davis, James Conlon, David Zinman, Claudio Abbado, James Levine, Lukas Foss, Mark Elder, Anton Coppola, Gisele Ben-Dor, and Marin Alsop. He has been a soloist at the Handel Week Festival in Oak Park, Illinois several times, at Mahlerfest in Boulder, Colorado (2001), and sang Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah in 1996 with New Oratorio Singers.

In 1979, Kraus made his professional debut singing the role of the Vicar in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring with the Chicago Opera Theater. He later played the title role in Gianni Schicchi with the company. With the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, in 1979, he sang in Handel’s Dettingen Te Deum and the Chicago premiere of American composer Russell Woollen’s In Martyrium Memoriam. Also in 1979, he recorded the role of Zweiter Gefangene in Beethoven’s Fidelio with the CSO, conducted by Sir Georg Solti.

Philip Kraus Net Worth

Philip Kraus is one of the richest Baritone from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Philip Kraus 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Philip Kraus (born November 17, 1950) is an American operatic baritone and stage director known for his performances with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, starting in 1991, and for his co-founding of Light Opera Works, a professional light opera company in Chicago, in 1980.

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Kraus served as resident stage director for the Pamiro Opera in Green Bay, Wisconsin from 1988 to 1996, directing productions of L’Italiana in Algeri (1988), The Merry Widow (1989), The Daughter of the Regiment (1990),Die Fledermaus (1991), The Magic Flute (1992), La Traviata (1993), Madama Butterfly (1994), Rigoletto (1995), and the world premiere of Gordon Parmentier’s The Lost Dauphin (2000), which was videotaped by Wisconsin Public Television for broadcast.

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Gabriella Ranked on the list of most popular Baritone. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Philip Kraus celebrates birthday on November 17 of every year.

For the Chicago Cultural Center, he directed Poulenc’s The Breasts of Tiresias in 2000 and Mozart’s The Impresario in 2001 for which he prepared the English translation. At the Lyric Opera Cleveland, he directed Patience, by Gilbert and Sullivan, in 2002, and The Mikado in 2004, in his 1986 Elizabethan concept. In 2017, he directed La Périchole for Tacoma Opera.