Welsh-Irish baritone Phil Gault figures that most people don’t read these biogs for a list of roles (available at www.philgault.com), so suffice it to say that he has performed in the UK and abroad, in many roles, for many companies. The most bizarre include Carmen in the all male CarMen, a giant rabbit in Postcards from Dumbworld, or a drug-addled banker in Spike: The Opera. He’s also done the usual operatic suspects: Don Giovanni, the Count (Figaro), Dandini (La Cenerentola) etc, as well as concert performances of Carmina Burana, several Bach cantatas and so on, and solo recitals of repertoire from Dichterliebe to Chansons Gaillardes.

 

Interesting TV jobs include hand-doubling for Tobias Menzies on Outlander, hurdling for a soft drink advert, pretending to be Sir Chris Hoy’s thighs, and being chief henchman for Karen Dunbar in MI:High. He has also broadcast opera in Welsh with Opra Cymru of the title roles in the award-nominated “Barbwr Sefil" and “Macbeth.”

 

When not singing, he enjoys running, cycling, and swimming (he completed IronMan Wales in 2018 after leading the anthem at the start in a wetsuit). In spite of this, he likes people to buy him drinks, having read this in the late Terry Pratchett’s biog, and thinking it’s worth a shot…