| Biography | Andrew Tortise was a choral scholar at Wells Cathedral before graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2002. Whilst at Cambridge he was active as both a tenor soloist and a piano accompanist.
Andrew made his opera debut in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysée as Apollo in Semele in 2004 and has since sung Marzio in Mitridate at the Salzburg Festival, Ferrando in Così fan tutte and roles in Poppea for Opéra National de Lyon and WNO with conductors including Rinaldo Alessandrini, William Christie and Marc Minkowski.
Recent opera appearances have included the lead tenor role in Mernier Frühlings Erwachen at La Monnaie, Lucano in Poppea conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, the tenor arias in JS Bach's St Matthew Passion in a new staged version by Katie Mitchell for Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Robert in Richard Jones production of David Sawyers new opera Skin Deep for Opera North and the Bregenz Festival. Further engagements include Novice in Billy Budd for Netherlands Opera, Ferrando in Così fan tutte for Glyndebourne on Tour and David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for Welsh National Opera.
On the concert platform he has sung Haydns The Seasons for Huddersfield Choral Society with Martyn Brabbins, Mozarts Requiem for the Philharmonia Orchestra, Berliozs LEnfance du Christ for ECO and Brittens Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Academy of Ancient Music. He has appeared on tours with Sir John Eliot Gardiner singing Purcell and Monteverdi and with Richard Egarr and the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment singing Messiah. He has also appeared with the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam singing Bachs Magnificat. |