Andrew Staples

The British tenor has exhibited his remarkable versatility in recent portrayals of Froh/Das Rheingold (Berlin State Opera), Quint/The Turn of the Screw (London’s Barbican Hall), Narraboth/ Salome (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra), and Tom Rakewell/The Rake’s Progress (Edinburgh International Festival). Among his many triumphs onstage in Mozart have been Tamino (London’s Royal Opera House, Chile’s Teatro del Lago), Ferrando/Così fan tutte (London’s Opera Holland Park), and Don Ottavio/ Don Giovanni (Salzburg Festival). Staples’s credits in contemporary opera include Adams’s A Flowering Tree (Opera Omaha). During the current season, the tenor will be heard in concert in St. John Passion (Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia), The Creation (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), and The Damnation of Faust (New Zealand Symphony Orchestra). Staples’s close association with London’s Royal Opera has encompassed portrayals of Artabenes/Arne’s Artaxerxes (a role he has also recorded), Jacquino/Fidelio, and Flamand/Capriccio (Sir Andrew Davis conducting). Staples sang in the American premiere of John Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple (Lincoln Center) and has performed in many important festivals, including those of Beijing, Bremen, and the BBC Proms. His varied discography includes Messiah, Billy Budd, and such rarities as Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, Elgar’s Apostles, and Walford Davies’s Everyman (world-premiere recording).

Lyric debut: Tamino/ The Magic Flute (2016|17)

Last updated: December 10, 2016