Andrew Staples
Tenor
Andrew Staples sang as a chorister in St Paul’s Cathedral before winning a Choral Scholarship to King’s College Cambridge, where he gained a degree in Music. Andrew was the first recipient of the RCM Peter Pears Scholarship, sponsored by the Britten Pears Foundation, at the Royal College of Music and subsequently joined the Benjamin Britten International Opera School. He studies with Ryland Davies.
His concert engagements include Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle and the Swedish Radio with Daniel Harding, John Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple in New York, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Strings and Horn with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Mozart’s Requiem with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra both conducted by Andrew Manze, the Gävle Symphony and Robin Ticciati, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding.
On stage he has performed Aret in Haydn’s Philemon und Baucis for the 2003 Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, conducted by Trevor Pinnock. He performed the role of Haliate in the Royal College of Music production of Handel’s Sosarme in conjunction with the London Handel Festival, conducted by Laurence Cummings and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) with Andrew Parrott and the London Mozart Players. For the BBIOS he sang Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte) and Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus) and he sang Nencio (Haydn’s L’Infedelta delusa) for English Touring Opera. He sang his first Tamino for Opera Holland Park. He has appeared regularly with the Classical Opera Company, of which he is an Associate Artist.
He made his Royal Opera House debut as Jacquino (Fidelio), returning for First Armed Man (Die Zauberflöte) and sang Belfiore (La Finta Giardiniera) for the National Theatre, Prague a role he will repeat in the same production for La Monnaie in Brussels. His opera engagements include Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for Garsington Opera and both Artabenes (Arne’s Artaxerxes) and Narraboth (Salome) for the Royal Opera. In concert he appears with the Gavle Symphony Orchestra and Robin Ticciati, the Staatskapelle Dresden, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Swedish Radio Orchestra all with Daniel Harding and both the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras and Sir Simon Rattle.