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Andrew Greenan
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One of the UK’s most sought after bass-baritones, Andrew Greenan has sung for many of the world’s leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York (Heinrich Lohengrin with Auguin), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Swallow Peter Grimes with Mackerras, Pietro Simon Boccanegra with Solti, Crespel Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Schwarz Die Meistersinger with Haitink), Hamburg State Opera (Swallow Peter Grimes), Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris (Waldner Arabella), Opéra National de Bordeaux (Rocco Fidelio), La Monnaie, Brussels (Biterolf Tannhäuser), Opéra National de Lyon (Baburov Cheryomuschki), Grand Theatre de Genève (Kothner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and San Diego Opera (Biterolf Tannhäuser, Cecil Maria Stuarda). His operatic appearances have also included King Mark Tristan und Isolde in Oviedo, Daland Der Fliegende Holländer, Doktor Wozzeck, Landgraf Tannhäuser and Ochs Der Rosenkavalier in Nancy, Rocco Fidelio in Auckland, Nightwatchman (cover Hans Sachs) Die Meistersinger for San Francisco Opera and Zweite Grahlsritter (cover Gurnemanz) Parsifal for Seattle Opera, Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Torino, Abimelech Samson et Dalila for New Israeli Opera, Sarastro for the Wiener Volksoper, Four Villains Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Rennes, Vodnik Rusalka for the Wexford Festival, title role Falstaff for the Prague National Theatre and Superintendant Budd Albert Herring for the Opéra Comique, Paris.
Andrew Greenan was a Choral Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read modern languages. He studied singing with John Cameron at the Royal Northern College of Music and made his operatic debut at La Scala, Milan in Schoenberg’s Die Glückliche Hand.
Andrew was a company principal at English National Opera from 1992 to 1997, where his many roles included Timur Turandot, Rocco/Don Fernando Fidelio, Monterone/Sparafucile Rigoletto, Angelotti Tosca, Commendatore Don Giovanni, Sarastro Die Zauberflöte, Hermit Der Freischütz, Gremin Eugene Onegin and Zaccaria Nabucco. Further appearances in the UK have included Ataliba Alzira with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Mark Elder), Sarastro Die Zauberflöte with Welsh National Opera, Arkel Pelléas et Melisande for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and Les Troyens with the LSO (Sir Colin Davis). Recent engagements include 5th Jew Salome for Netherlands Opera, Klingsor Parsifal in Geneva, Ochs Der Rosenkavalier for Cape Town Opera and San Diego Opera, Vodnik Rusalka for Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy, Arnolphe in Liebermann’s Die Schule der Frauen for Opéra National de Bordeaux and his return to ENO in 2011 for Titurel Parsifal.
Andrew also performs regularly on the concert platform where his repertoire includes Bach Magnificat, St Matthew Passion, Verdi Requiem (Simonov) and Handel Messiah (RLPO and Singapore Symphony). Additionally he has performed Dvorák Te Deum, Puccini Messa di Gloria, Handel Jephtha, Tippett A Child of Our Time, Elgar Dream of Gerontius, The Kingdom, Walton Belshazzar’s Feast, Beethoven Missa Solemnis, 9th Symphony, Mendelssohn Elijah and Mahler 8th Symphony and opera concert performances as Polizeikommissar Der Rosenkavalier (de Waart, Concertgebouw), Adhémar de Montil Jérusalem (Concertgebouw), Gurnemanz Parsifal, Pogner Die Meistersinger and Wotan Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. Recordings include Bonze The Nightingale (Musicmasters) and Tiresias Oedipus Rex (Naxos) with Robert Craft and the Philharmonia and Premiere Sentinelle Les Troyens with Sir Colin Davis (LSO Live).
Engagements in 2011/2012 include Monterone Rigoletto for Grange Park Opera, Bonze Madama Butterfly for Opera North, 1st Nazarene Salome (in concert) at the Concertgebouw, Messiah for Huddersfield Choral Society, King Aida at the Royal Albert Hall and 1st Nazarene Salome for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Subsequent engagements include Der Wirt in Schreker’s Die Schatzgräber for Netherlands Opera and Nightwatchman Die Meistersinger for Seattle Opera.
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