| Biography | Mr. Harris completed the Young Artist Program with Chicago Opera Theater and Artist Diploma at Roosevelt University in 2012 where he was mentored by bass, Samuel Ramey. He participated as a semi-finalist in the Neue Stimmen competition in Germany in the fall of 2011 and won 1st prize in a major grant from the Union League of Chicago. He apprenticed with The Santa Fe Opera and worked at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as a recipient of the Opera Foundation Inc. Scholarship performing supporting roles throughout their 2012-14 seasons.
In In 2010 Mr. Harris won the Central Regional Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions advancing him to the National Semi-Finals in March of that year.
In past seasons he reprised the role of Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Theater of the Rockies and returned to Central City Opera to sing the role of Simone in Gianni Schicchi, he added the roles of Angelotti in Tosca and Commendatore in Don Giovanni with Lyric Opera Kansas City. Engaged for a second season, Mr. Harris covered the roles of Grampa George and Mr. Beauregard with Opera Theater of St. Louiss production of The Golden Ticket a.k.a. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and he returned to Opera North for his role debut with the company as Colline in La bohème.
Previously in the summer of 2009 he impressed audiences at Opera North in a triumphant portrayal of Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia. Earlier that year he was invited to the Gerdine Young Artist program at Opera Theatre of St. Louis where he sang the role of the 5th Jew in Salome and covered the role of Pasha in The Ghosts of Versailles.
Previous roles include; Achilla (Giulio Cesare), Alcindoro/Benoit (La bohème), Ralph Waldo Emerson in the world premiere of John Brown, Marquis dObigny (La traviata)all with Lyric Opera Kansas City; The Bartender (The Saint of Bleeker Street) and Dr. Grenvil (La traviata) with Central City. Other roles in his repertoire include Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Micha in (The Bartered Bride); Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) and Le Fauteuil/Un Arbre (Lenfant et les Sortilèges).
Andrew Harris made his Deutsche Oper Berlin role debut as the Gralsritter in Parsifal stepping in for an ailing colleague, and more recently, Le Roi de Trèfle in The Love for Three Oranges. He made his Bayerische Staatsopera debut as Plutone in L'Orfeo in the summer of 2014 and is Fest at Deutsche Oper Berlin through 2016 where, in addition to other roles, he reprises the role of Köchin in Prokofiev's The Love of Three Oranges and sing Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor. |