"How fitting, though, that the most beautiful voice in the cast belonged to tenor Andrew Bidlack..."
Howard Reich
Chicago Tribune
"Tenor Andrew Bidlack sang with exceptional tonal beauty and expressive intelligence..."
Mark Thomas Ketterson
Opera News
"Andrew Bidlack, as Private John Ball, scaled magnificently what must be one of the most ambitious leading operatic roles in recent times..."
Peter Reynolds
Opera Now
BIO
Featured by Opera News as one of their ‘25 Rising Stars’ (October 2015), tenor Andrew Bidlack is renowned for his interpretation of roles in contemporary opera as well as his appearances in standard repertoire. Career highlights include Beppe I Pagliacci at the Metropolitan Opera; Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia and Arcadio Florencia en el Amazonas at Florida Grand Opera; Tamino Die Zauberflöte at FGO and at Madison Opera; the role of Bill Flight at Des Moines Metro Opera; the principal role of Rob Hall in Joby Talbot’s Everest, a role he created at Dallas Opera and has since performed at Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Calgary Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, and Austin Opera; also at COT his debut as Greenhorn Moby-Dick, a role he originally inaugurated in workshop performances during his tenure as an Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera; and his UK debut at Welsh National Opera in Iain Bell’s In Parenthesis as Private John Ball directed by David Pountney and conducted by Carlo Rizzi with performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Future appearances include Doctor The Diving Bell and the Butterfly at Dallas Opera, and Lyonnel Le Roi Arthus at BARD/Summerscape Opera, Camille de Rosillion The Merry Widow at Opera Idaho, Carmina Burana with the New Choral Society, and Steven Kodaly She Loves Me at Madison Opera.
