Tenor
Born in Carmarthen, West Wales, Andrew Rees gained a scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and completed his studies on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. He was a Jerwood Young Artist at English National Opera and later became a principal tenor at the company.
In opera, he has performed for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Chelsea Opera Group, Grange Park Opera, Longborough Festival Opera, Northern Ireland Opera, Opera Holland Park and Welsh National Opera, as well as for Angers-Nantes Opera, the National Theater Weimar, the New Israeli Opera, the Nederlandse Reisopera and the Stadttheater St Gallen. His repertoire has included Bob Boles in Peter Grimes, Boris in Katya Kabanova, Sergei in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Doctor Yes in Anna Nicole, Macduff in Macbeth, Froh in Das Rheingold, Heinrich der Schreiber in Tannhäuser and Siegmund in Die Walküre.
Concert highlights have included performances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Sinfonieorchester, Hamburg, and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.
His recordings include Narraboth in Salome for Chandos and Doctor Yes in Anna Nicole for Opus Arte Blu Ray / DVD.
Current engagements include Vladimir Igoryevich in Prince Igor for Chelsea Opera Group, Laca in Jenufa for Grange Park Opera, Melot in Tristan und Isolde at the Dutch National Opera and the Rome Opera, and Jimmy Mahoney in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
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