Anthony Buck

Librettist, Stage Director, Teacher, Tenor

Anthony Buck is a versatile artist with over 100 stage credits to his name as singer, actor, director, playwright, librettist, composer, and stage manager. Also a voice teacher, his students have been accepted at San Francisco Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, University of Utah, Westminster College and Utah State University. Anthony holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Voice Performance, related field in Opera Production from the University of Utah. Dr. Buck served for two seasons as the Artistic Director for Utah Vocal Arts Academy's Summer Opera Festival and teaches a variety of music courses at Salt Lake Community College.

Rimrock Opera and NOVA Center for the Performing Arts production of Hansel and Gretel, Anthony Buck Director and Set Designer. March 2025, Billings MT

Sarah Waggoner as Gretel, Mandi Barrus as the Witch, Bethany Smith-Jacobs as Hansel

Hansel and Gretel

The Gingerbread Children

Opera Contempo produced a staged reading of Anthony's full-length opera Le Roman de Silence. 8 soloists, chorus, and chamber orchestra presented the piece on May 18 and 19, 2024 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salt Lake City.

"I went to the opening performance last night at St. Paul's (as much out of curiosity as anything!). I was gobsmacked. It was absolutely beautiful. Some stunningly gorgeous composing by Anthony Thomas Buck. Ethereal, exquisite work, for soloists and chorus alike. And a real story being told, engaging and poignant, thematically complex.

"There's something thrilling about an artist taking a HUGE RISK, doing something daring, launching into new territory. Inspiring, to say the least. What an achievement by Anthony and Opera Contempo. A brilliant collaboration and a true labor of love, one that paid off handsomely. Congrats to all!" Stephen Williams

Julia Gershkoff and Charity Johansen as Silence and King Euan

Mandi Barrus and Michael Shoaf as Nature and Nurture

Julia Gershkoff and Ricky Parkinson as Silence and Queen Eufeme

Julia Gershkoff and Court Thomas as Silence and Jean

Twelfth Night at Parker Theater in Salt Lake City, August 2024. Anthony Buck directed and composed new music for the production.

Owen Brigg and David Johnson as Feste and Malvolio

Camrey Fox and Jason Hackney as Viola and Orsino

Camrey Fox and Ken Hadlock as Viola and the Captain

Jaxton Brenner, Katherine Tietjen, and Tyler Oliphant as Fabian, Maria, and Sir Toby

Murray Cultural Arts' production of South Pacific in Concert in June 2024. Anthony Buck directed and conducted the performance.

Michelle Thompson and Tyler Oliphant as Nellie and Émile

Michelle Thompson and Matty Boyd with Ensemble in "Honey Bun"

Jinxiang Yu as Bloody Mary

Chris Stockslager, Alan Smith, and Matty Boyd as Stewpot, Professor, and Billis

UVAA's production of Gianni Schicchi, July 2022. Anthony Buck director, Nicolas Giusti conductor.

UVAA's production of Dido and Æneas, July 2022. Anthony Buck director and conductor.

Anthony directed the Salt Lake Vocal Artist's production of Considering Matthew Shepard in February 2022.

Anthony's new translation of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld premiered at Utah Vocal Arts Academy, July 2021. Anthony Buck, director. Michaella Calzaretta, conductor. Central Washington University and New York University also mounted productions of the translation in Spring 2022.

Anthony Buck provided the libretto and original stage direction for a one-act opera of A Christmas Carol. The University of Utah's 2019 Production of A Christmas Carol at The Grand Theatre in Salt Lake City was the Division 4 1st Place Winner for the National Opera Association's Opera Production Awards.

Opera Harmony and OperaVision have released Anthony Buck and Ian Mikyska's short digital opera Divas Furloughed. The Financial Times called it "witty." See it here.

Lizzie Holmes as Cio Cio San, Keely Futterer as Violetta, Elise Caluwaerts as Lucia, and Justine Viani as Salome in Divas Furloughed.

La Traviata at Utah Valley University, January 2020. Isaac Hurtado, director. Nicholas Giusi, conductor. Anthony Buck, assistant director.