Andrew Harris

Bass

Andrew Harris acquired a Bachelor and Master of Music in Vocal Performance, as well as a Master of Music in Piano Performance at universities in the US. From 2010 until 2012 he was a member of the Young Artists Program of the Chicago Opera Theatre. Since 2012 he is an ensemble member of Deutsche Oper Berlin, first as a scholarship holder of the Opera Foundation and the Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin e.V.

His roles include, among others, Fafner/Das Rheingold & Siegfried, Fasolt/Das Rheingold, Stephano Collona/Rienzi, Reinmar von Zweter/Tannhäuser, Titurel/Parsifal, Doktor/Wozzeck, Roger Mortimer/Edward II, Don Basillio/Il barbiere di Siviglia, Timur/Turandot, Masetto/Don Giovanni, Quince/A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Luther and Crespel/Les Contesd’Hoffmann, Alessio/La sonnambula, Marcel/Les Huguenots, Count Horn/Un ballo in maschera, as well as La Cuisiniére/The Love for Three Oranges.

Guest engagements led him to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Norwegian Opera Oslo, Santa Fe Opera, to Madrid and Palma (Mallorca), as well as to the Festwochen für Alte Musik Innsbruck. Further, he was Fafner in a semi-staged production of Das Rheingold under Vladimir Jurowski in Moscow.

Following his successful debut at La Scala in Milan 2021 in the livestreaming productions of Salome and of Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel and 7 Todsünden under the baton of Riccardo Chailly, Andrew Harris was first seen in summer 2021 as Fasolt/Rheingold and Hunding/Walküre in the new RING production at Deutsche Oper Berlin, staged by Stefan Herheim and conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles.

Current engagements include his return to Munich’s Bavarian State Opera in a new production of Penderecki’s Die Teufel von Loudon under the baton of Vladamir Jurowski, as well as in a revival of Un ballo in maschera conducted by Daniele Rustioni.

At his parent’s house in Berlin he can be heard as Timur/Turandot and Titurel/ Parsifal among others.