Andrew studied Music at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a Choral Scholar, and Opera at the Royal College of Music International Opera School, where he was the first recipient of the Peter Pears Scholarship awarded by the Benjamin Britten International Opera School.

Andrew Staples

Andrew Staples sang with us in Haydn’s The Seasons in December 2010, and in Britten’s St Nicolas in November 2009.

In concert Andrew has sung with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Manze and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, and Robin Ticciati and the Gävle Symphony.

 

At the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, he has sung Jaquino (Fidelio), First Armed Man (Die Zauberflöte) Artabanes (Artaxerxes) and Narraboth (Salome). Other rôles include Belfiore (La Finta Giardiniera) for the National Theatre in Prague and Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream) at Garsington. He sung Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at Opera Holland Park and Rodolfo (La Bohème) in the Palestinian Music Festival.

 

Future engagements include Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) for Garsington and Belfiore for La Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie.

 

Last year he made his operatic directorial debut with a critically acclaimed production of Le nozze di Figaro with his new company Vignette Productions at Wiltons Music Hall and Musique Cordiale Festival in Provence. This success was repeated this summer with a production of Mozart's Cosí fan tutte. Plans for him and Vignette include productions of The Cunning Little Vixen in Merano, La Bohème in London and Provence, The Rape of Lucretia in Brooklyn, New York, and a major touring production of Die Zauberflöte across Southern Africa.