Biography

Andrew Harris earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Vocal Performance and Master of Music in Piano Performance from universities in the USA. From 2010 to 2012 he was a member of the Young Artists Program of the Chicago Opera Theater. In 2012 he started as a scholarship holder at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, later becoming a permanent ensemble member.

His roles include. Fafner in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Fasolt/Das Rheingold, Stephano Collona/Rienzi, Reinmar von Zweter/Tannhäuser, Titurel/Parsifal, Doktor/Wozzeck, Roger Mortimer/Edward II, Don Basilio/Il barbiere di Siviglia, Timur/Turandot, Masetto/Don Giovanni, Quince/A Midsummer Night's Dream, Luther and Crespel/Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Alessio/La sonnambula, Marcel/Les Huguenots, Count Horn/Un ballo in maschera, La Cuisiniére/Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen and Sparafucile/ Rigoletto.

Guest engagements have taken him to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Norwegian Opera in Oslo, Santa Fe Opera, Madrid and Palma (Mallorca) as well as to the Innsbruck Early Music Festival. He also sang Fafner in a semi-staged performance of Das Rheingold conducted by Vladimir Jurowski in Moscow and made his debut at La Scala in Milan in 2021 in live streaming productions of Salome, Weills' Mahagonny Songspiel and 7 Deadly Sins conducted by Riccardo Chailly. In 2021 with roles of Fasolt/Rheingold and Hunding/Walküre made important role debuts in the new RING at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, staged by Stefan Herheim and conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles.

2022 included his return to the Bavarian State Opera Munich in a new new production of Pendereckis' The Devils of Loudun conducted by Vladimir Jurowski/ Simon Stone and performances of Un ballo in Maschera conducted by Daniele Rustioni. At Chicago Lyric Opera he was engaged in Missy Mazzoli's chamber opera Proving Up conducted by Enrique Mazzola*. 
In the 22/23 season he toured with the Mannheim National Theatre at the Daegu International Opera Festival in South Korea as Fafner in Rheingold and Siegfried under the leading team of Alexander Soddy and Yona Kim. He sang again at the Bavarian State Opera Munich in the revival of Penderecki's The Devils of Loudun and at the MET he was engaged on a cover contract as Commendatore/ Don Giovanni. At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, his roles included Sparafucile/ Rigoletto and in Detlev Glanerts' Oceane.
With the 23/24 season he can be heard at Deutsche Oper Berlin as a guest in the season premiere of Puccini's Il Trittico as well as the King in the WA of Aida and Titurel in Parsifal. He will also make his debut under the baton of Kirill Petrenko with the Berliner Philharmoniker in Baden- Baden and the Philharmonie Berlin in R. Strauss Elektra.
2024 will also see his debut with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as Fafner in the RING conducted by Fabio Luisi and he will be heard at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in a concert performance of Unsuk Chins' Alice in Wonderland conducted by Markus Stenz and the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest. In summer 24' he will travel to the USA to sing in Kurt Weills' Street Scenes production and Arthur Sullivans' The Pirates of Penzance in Denver.
*cancelled due to covid

Management

General Management 

Artist Manager
 
 
 
 
Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net 
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20

Repertoire

Repertoire Opera

Adams Doctor Atomic Edward Teller
Berg Wozzeck Doktor
Berlioz Les Troyens Fantôme d' Hector
    Soldat Troyen
    Un Capitaine Grec
Britten Billy Budd Lieutenant  Ratcliffe
  The Rape of Lucretia Collatitnus
Janáček Vĕc Makropulos Stage Technician
Mazzoli,M. Proving Up The Sodbuster
Meyerbeer Vasco da Gama Don Diego
    Admiral
Monteverdi Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria Il Tempo
    Nettuno
  L'Orfeo Plutone
Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail Osmin
  Die Zauberflöte Sarastro
    2. Geharnischter
  Don Giovanni Masetto
    Il Commendatore
  Le Nozze di Figaro Antonio
Mussorgsky Boris Godunov Nikitich
Prokofiev L'Amour de trois Oranges Le Roi de Trèfle
    La Cuisinière
Puccini La Fanciulla del West José Castro
  Tosca Sciarrone
    Un carceriere
  Turandot Un Mandarino
    Timur
Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia Basilio
    Un ufficiale
Scartazzini,A.L.  Edward II Mortimer
Strauss,R. Salome 5. Jude
    1. Soldat
    2. Soldat
Thomas Hamlet Le Spectre
Verdi Aida Il Re
  Falstaff Pistola
  La traviata Un messaggero
    Il dottor Grenvil
    Il marchese d’Obigny
  Les Vêpres Siciliennes Le Sire de Béthune
  Macbeth Sicario
    Medico
    Spirito
  Nabucco Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo
  Rigoletto  Il conte di  Ceprano
  Un ballo in maschera Tom
Wagner Das Rheingold Fasolt
    Fafner
  Die Walküre Hunding
  Parsifal Titurel
    2. Gralsritter
  Rienzi Stefano Colonna
  Siegfried Fafner
Weil Die Sieben Todsünden Mutter

News

Hendricks and Harris in Wonderland
Following concert performances of the Ring in Dallas, Andrew Harris and Scott Hendricks, who could just be heard at his parent house in Brussels as Carlo in Verdi's “Nostalgia”, are off to Amsterdam, where they will appear together in a concert performance of “Alice in Wonderland”.

Under the musical direction of Markus Stenz and a production by South Korean composer Unsuk Chin, Scott Hendricks as Mad Hatter and Andrew Harris as King of Hearts can be heard at the Concertgebouw on 01.06.2024.

Press

 

Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria / Die Innsbrucker Festwochen / 12.08.2017 / Merkur.de


"Aus den Übrigen ragt Andrew Harris als Nettuno nicht nur wegen seiner Größe, sondern auch dank seines Granit-Basses heraus."

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