About this Artist

A prolific concert performer, tenor ANDREW STAPLES has appeared with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Wiener Philharmoniker, the Akademisten Berlin, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Sir Simon Rattle; the Orchestre de Paris, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra with Daniel Harding; the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Andrew Manze; the Gävle Symphony and Robin Ticciati; the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest and the Philadelphia Orchestra with Yannick Nézet-Séguin; and the Accademia Santa Cecilia with Semyon Bychkov.

Andrew made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Jacquino Fidelio, returning for Flamand Capriccio, Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Artabenes in Arne’s Artaxerxes and Narraboth Salome. He has also appeared at the National Theatre Prague; La Monnaie  Brussels; the Salzburger Festspiele; Hamburgische Staatsoper, Theater an der Wien, the Lucerne Festival and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Engagements this season include Froh Das Rheingold and Tichon Katya Kabanova for the Royal Opera House, Handel’s Messiah for the New York Philharmonic, a European tour of St John Passion with the OAE, Britten’s Nocturne with the Swedish Radio Symphony, and a tour of Britten’s War Requiem with the Orchestre de Paris. Further future engagements include his first Idomeneo, a return to the Lyric Opera of Chicago and his debut at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and the Metropolitan Opera.