Baritone

Scott Skiba has sung with the Indianapolis Opera, Bloomington Music Works, Oberlin Opera Theater, Louisiana Lyric Opera, Olney Theater Center, DuPage Opera Theater, Indiana University Opera Theater, Opera Western Reserve and the Pittsburgh Opera where his performance credits include the title roles in Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Eugene Onégin and Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Escamillo (Carmen), Mandryka (Arabella), Pirate King (Pirates of Penzance) Giorgio Germont (La Traviata), Tarquinius (The Rape of Lucretia), Baron Zeta and Cascada (The Merry Widow), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Marcello (La Boheme), Captain Balstrode (Peter Grimes), Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress), Marco (A View From the Bridge), King Melchior (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Michele (Il Tabarro), and Horace Tabor (The Ballad of Baby Doe).  

The Pittsburgh native remains an active recitalist and Oratorio soloist. His Oratorio and concert performances include soloist in Carmina Burana, the St. John Passion, Israel in Egypt, Messiah, In Terra Pax, Christmas Oratorio, featured soloist with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, Akron Symphony, Oberlin Black River Singers, Cleveland Choral Arts Society, Columbus Symphony, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, guest recitalist at The Oberlin Conservatory of Music and featured soloist on The McGraw Hill Companies' Young Artists Showcase, on 96.3 WQXR - The Classical Radio Station of the New York Times.  

Mr. Skiba recently completed doctoral coursework with internationally acclaimed baritone and Distinguished Professor of Music, Timothy Noble at the Indiana University where he was an Assistant Instructor of Voice. Skiba began his vocal training with Mr. Greg Biddle in Pittsburgh, Pa and received a bachelor of music degree in vocal performance and a master of music degree in opera theater from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he was a student of Professor of Singing, Daune Mahy and a Lab Assistant in the Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center.  

Upcoming performance engagements include Monterone in Rigoletto with Opera Western Reserve and Cleveland Opera Circle in November, and Iago in Verdi’s Otello with DuPage Opera Theater in January and February.