Andrew Greenan

Andrew Greenan read modern languages at Cambridge and studied with John Cameron at the Royal Northern College of Music. He made his professional operatic debut in Schoenberg's Die Glüchliche Hand at La Scala, Milan, and then sang at Bayreuth for three consecutive summers. Formerly a Company Principal at English National Opera, his many roles at the Coliseum ranged from the Commendatore in Don Giovanni to Swallow in Peter Grimes and the Parson in The Cunning Little Vixen. For the Royal Opera Covent Garden he has sung Swallow, and Roles in operas by Verdi, Wagner and Richard Strauss. Abroad, performances include Bottom in a Midsummer Night's Dream in Turin, Abimelech in Samson et Delilah for New Israeli Opera, and Sarastro at the Vienna Volksoper, with an increasing number of major operatic and concert engagements.

He has a wide concert repertoire, sacred and secular, and recitals have included several performances of Winterreise. His comprehensive concert repertoire ranges from Bach to Tippett and beyond. He has appeared with many leading orchestras including the RPO, BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, English Chamber and Belgian National Orchestras; as well as with the Philharmonia, under Robert Craft, in recordings of Stravinsky's The Nightingale, The Flood and Oedipus Rex, and with Sir Colin Davis and the LSO in the award-winning Berlioz Les Troyens.

Most recently he has sung in St Paul's Cathedral, Lyon, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Oviedo, Paris and Nancy. Future plans include Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera at Covent Garden, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Rennes, Berg's Wozzeck in Nancy, Wagner's Die Meistersinger in Geneva, and Tannhauser and Donizetti's Maria Stuarda in San Diego.