PHILIPPE SLY started his career in the world of opera as something of a wunderkind. At the age of 21, while still an undergraduate at Montreal’s McGill University, he was awarded one of the Grand Prizes in the 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. The following year, he took home the First Prize, as well as the prizes for Best Canadian Artist, Best Artist from Quebec, Best Performance of the Imposed Canadian Work and the People’s Choice Award at the Montreal International Music Competition.
By the age of 23, he had recorded his first album for the Analekta Label, and had been named “Révélation Classique” by Radio-Canada. After a short stint in the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio, he was offered an Adler Fellowship by San Francisco Opera and made his début there at 24 as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte.
Not surprisingly, engagements with high-profile orchestras and opera companies around the world quickly followed. Now 33, he has recorded complete operas with Warner Classics, Decca and
