Andrew Staples
About this Artist
Andrew Staples stands as a versatile artist of our era. He combines a busy schedule as an opera and concert singer with a career as a film and stage director and photographer. To all his creative output, Staples brings a collaborative approach and a passion to tell stories that build connections between artists and audiences.
As a distinguished tenor, he has collaborated with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, Emmanuelle Haïm, Elim Chan, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Barenboim, Andrew Davis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and with renowned orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, among others.
Staples has sung at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Teatro La Fenice, the Metropolitan Opera, La Monnaie Brussels, the Salzburger Festspiele, Theater an der Wien, the Lucerne Festival, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Last season he performed Beethoven’s Fidelio (Florestan) with the LA Phil and Gustavo Dudamel and Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos (Bacchus) with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer.
In the 2024/25 season, Staples embarks on European tours with three major orchestras. He performs Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos (Bacchus) with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with both the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony. Additionally, Staples returns to Munich to perform Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle. Other highlights of the season include Mendelssohn’s Lobegesang with the Sinfonieorchester Basel and Ivor Bolton, Bruckner’s Mass No. 3 with the Wiener Symphoniker and Lorenzo Viotti, and Bach’s Cantatas and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris conducted by Philipp von Steinaecker.