BIOGRAPHY
American tenor Andrew Bidlack’s current season engagements include his guest appearance at the 20th Anniversary concert for American Lyric Theatre, the principal tenor role of Trout Shue in Madison Opera’s world premiere of Everlasting Faint by Scott Grendel and Sandra Flores-Strand, the roles of Graf von Gloria Cassis Die Banditen and Remendado Carmen at Oper Frankfurt where he is a regular guest artist, and Tony West Side Story in a debut with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra.
Career highlights include his 2016 and 2018 Metropolitan Opera appearances as Beppe I Pagliacci, the principal tenor role in Iain Bell’s world premiere In Parenthesis at Welsh National Opera with performances at Covent Garden in 2016; and the role of Lyonnel Le Roi Arthus at BARD Summerscape and in Austria’s Tiroler Festspiel, Erl, which brought his first invitation to appear at Oper Frankfurt where he continues to make guest appearances.
Last season, the artist appeared as Edmondo Manon Lescaut with Washington Concert Opera; he returned to Oper Frankfurt for Sichel Doktor und Apotheker, Third Squire Parsifal, Wirt and Haushofmeister des Marschallins Der Rosenkavalier; and he travelled to Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern for False Assistant Der Zar lässt sich photographieren.
Recent successes include Augustin Moser Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Dance Master/Lamplighter Manon Lescaut, Schmidt Werther, The False Assistant Der Zar lässt sich photographieren, Second Jew Salome, Wirt Der Traumgorge and perhaps most memorably, the role of First Vagabond in Orff’s Die Kluge with its numerous high Cs. His easy command of Russian took him to Odyssey Opera for Young Gypsy Aleko and Paolo Francesca da Rimini and he joined Opera Delaware’s recital series for Schumann’s Dichterliebe. He returned to Dallas Opera for Doctor in the world premiere of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Other highlights include his performances as Tony West Side Story at Atlanta Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Latvia; and the role of Rob Hall in Joby Talbot’s celebrated Everest, a role he inaugurated at Dallas Opera and sang at Calgary Opera, Austin Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Lyric Opera of Kansas City and in a concert recording with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at London’s Barbican Theatre in June 2023.
Andrew has appeared in many world premieres, including Bell’s Stonewall as Andy at New York City Opera; he workshopped Greenhorn/Ishmael in the developmental production of Moby-Dick at San Francisco Opera and later sang the role at Dallas Opera and at Chicago Opera Theatre. Other contemporary roles include Sprinck in Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize winning composition Silent Night at Arizona Opera; Young Collector A Streetcar Named Desire in his debut with Lyric Opera of Chicago also at Carnegie Hall; Ricky Ian Gordon's 27 as Pablo Picasso and Irving Tashman in Gordon’s Morning Star; the role of Sandy The Lighthouse at Dallas Opera; at Des Moines Metro Opera he sang Bill Flight; in several productions of Florencia en el Amazonas Andrew appeared as Arcadio; he has performed the title role Candide, and more recently, Camille The Merry Widow at Opera Idaho and as Steven Kodaly She Loves Me at Madison Opera.
A graduate of San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Adler Fellowship, Andrew’s significant body of standard repertoire includes many Rossini/Mozart and bel canto roles such as Tamino Die Zauberflote, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, Almaviva Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Ferrando Cosi fan tutte; Rodrigo Otello, Don Ramiro La Cenerentola, Bastien Bastien et Bastienne, Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, Tonio La fille du régiment, title role of Getry’s rarely heard opera Zémire et Azor. and Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi. Other past roles include Lensky Eugene Onegin, Baron Lummer Intermezzo, Almerich Iolanta, Prince Karl Franz The Student Prince, Anatol Vanessa, Rodolfo La bohème, Snout A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Emilio Partenope and Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress.
Andrew’s concert appearances are legendary, and he appears with eminent conductors in much of the standard vocal symphonic repertoire as well as the new works of today’s composers; his credits include Carmina Burana with New York’s New Choral Society in addition to the South Dakota Symphony and Milwaukee Symphony, Bach’s Weihnachts Oratorium in his Carnegie Hall debut, The Messiah with The Lexington Philharmonic, The Creation with Greensboro Symphony, as well as premiering Iain Bell’s London’s Fatal Fire at the Spitalfield’s Festival.
Other international engagements include his appearance as A Guest The Saint of Bleecker Street at the Spoleto Festival in Italy, which was recorded and released under the Chandos label; the role of Oronte Alcina in Chile and Damon Acis and Galatea in Macau.