SCHYLER
VARGAS
SCHYLER
VARGAS
MEET SCHYLER
Acclaimed as a “superb” (New York Stage Review) and “powerful baritone” (Washington Post), Mexican-American performer Schyler Vargas is gaining recognition as a premier cross-over artist, succeeding in comedic and dramatic roles in opera, operetta, and musical theatre. Notable credits include performing at Carnegie Hall with MasterVoices in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath and premiering UNKNOWN by Shawn Okpebholo which was featured on PBS NewsHour and NPR. Role highlights include: Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Wolf and Cinderella’s Prince in Into the Woods, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Riff in West Side Story, and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. On the concert stage, he has performed the baritone solos for Vaughn Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Handel’s Messiah, among others. In recital, Schyler has performed several world-premieres by living composers and proudly prioritizes diverse programming of lesser known works and composers.
A VERSATILE SINGING ACTOR.
At home across genres, in venues from cabarets to Carnegie Hall, Schyler has built his artistic life as
“One while more or less expect the big names to be good, but the night ultimately belonged to the relative newcomers. Soprano Ashley Fabian and baritone Schyler Vargas approached their roles with the palpable excitement of singers who are rounding the bend on their big breaks. Fabian combined a voice of immense warmth and scintillating spin with subtle comedic timing, as feisty shepherdess Phyllis, while Vargas displayed a radiant, sunny baritone, a highly developed sense of line, and irrepressible exuberance and sincerity as Strephon. These two are clearly stars in the making.”
A STAR IN THE MAKING.
STREPHON, IOLANTHE. PARTERRE BOX.
