REVIEWS
"Bidlack in particular makes an almost too beautiful a job of the relentlessly high extremity of his lines, particularly in his heart-breaking final communications over the radio with his colleague Guy (Jimmy Holliday) and his pregnant wife Jan (a radiant Sian Griffiths)."
Alexandra Coghlan
The Arts Desk
"The rich tenor of Andrew Bidlack (Hall) soared into spellbinding elation at the mountain’s beauty as the summit panorama spooled across the backdrop, before descending into panic at the missing oxygen, and desperate loneliness as he suffers alone."
Kate Armstrong
The Alpine Club
"Tenor Andrew Bidlack shines as Rob Hall, a New Zealand-born mountaineer and expedition leader, his fine voice, narrow and true, navigating the characters miasmatic passages with rare beauty."
Will Snell
Bachtrack
"Andrew Bidlack as Rob gives an eloquent portrayal of a decent man stuck in a terrible situation. His expressive vocal range is well matched by the rich-voiced Daniel Okulitch as Beck..."
Inge Kjemtrup
The Stage
Everest
The Barbican/BBC Symphony Orcestra
2023
"In every moment on stage, tenor Andrew Bidlack projected his character with ease and beauty of tone... As Paolo, Andrew Bidlack wooed her brilliantly, yet again bringing his powerful yet lyric tenor to his character."
John Ehrlich
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
"Bidlack provided one of the highlights of the afternoon with Paolo’s serenade. He and Dyachek ratcheted up the tension in their crucial scene, building from the innocent reading of an Arthurian tale to a torrent of passion culminating in the chorus’ orgasmic moans."
Kevin Wells
Bachtrack
Aleko/
Francesca da Rimini
Odyssey Opera
2022
"As Lyonnel, tenor Andrew Bidlack was second to none in terms of vocal glamour and created a particularly sympathetic character as Lancelot’s faithful squire."
Rick Perdian
Seen and Heard International
"Impressive lyric tenor Andrew Bidlack was Lancelot's faithful servant, Lyonnel..."
Robert Levine
Bachtrack
Le roi Arthus
Bard Summerscape
2021
"Binding these elements together were powerhouse lead performances. As ill-fated expedition leader Rob Hall, Andrew Bidlack's bright tenor carried the burden of his fatal decisions, singing apologies directly to client climber Doug Hansen (baritone Craig Verm) and, heartbreakingly, over the radio to his pregnant wife, Jan Arnold (soprano Heather Johnson)."
Trey Gutierrez
The Austin Chronicle
"The singers were uniformly excellent. All three leading characters, bass Kevin Burdette as Dr. Beck Weathers, tenor Andrew Bidlack as Rob Hall and baritone Craig Verm as Doug Hansen had sung in the Dallas premiere in 2015, and had total command of Talbot’s challenging vocal writing..."
Paul E. Robinson
La Scena Musicale
Everest
Austin Opera
2020
Everest/Aleko
Chicago Opera Theater
2019
"Tenor Andrew Bidlack sang with exceptional tonal beauty and expressive intelligence as expedition leader Rob Hall, the role he created at the opera's world premiere at Dallas Opera. The role's tessitura seems as cruelly high as Mt. Everest's summit, but Bidlack's soaring upper register negotiated the role fearlessly."
Mark Thomas Ketterson
Opera News
"As Rob Hall, the team leader, tenor Andrew Bidlack sang his opening lines—mundane reports that “all is well” at his location near the summit--with youthful ease and confidence. In his last conversation via satellite phone with his wife, the tenderness and regret in his young voice was heart-breaking."
Wynne Delacoma
Musical America
"Andrew Bidlack made a nice hairpin turn from heroic mountaineer to doomed lover as the Young Gypsy. As Zemfira’s nameless inamorata, the versatile tenor sang with big, febrile Russian color..."
Lawrence A. Johnson
Chicago Classical Review
"Andrew Bidlack sang impossible bespoke phrases above the staff in Joby Talbot’s Everest. Sharing the bill with Rachmaninoff’s Aleko, Chicago Opera Theater then tasked Bidlack with mustering his most beautiful tone for the famous Young Gypsy’s Romance. He navigated both with skill and I was truly impressed."
Oliver Camacho
Vocal Arts Chicago
Stonewall
New York City Opera
2019
"Exuding a cat-like coolness, Andrew Bidlack, as Andy, saunters around a bench area in Christopher Park and playfully eyes a man across the way that looks interested. Internally plagued with doubt and contemplation about whether or not he is being duped by a cop, Bidlack, convincingly told the story of a kid looking for love, who finds it on the Stonewall dance floor."
Jennifer Pyron
OperaWire
"Andrew Bidlack (Andy) and Jessica Fishenfeld (as the “lipstick” lesbian Leah) triumphed with daunting leaps to difficult high notes."
James Jorden
New York Observer
"...Bidlack and Beutel committed wonderfully to their characters..."
Oussama Zahr
Opera News
"Tenor Andrew Bidlack captured the pathos of Andy, disowned by his family in Buffalo, living on the streets and turning tricks for $10 (which, in 1969, would pay for two pizzas, a shower at the Y, and Stonewall’s $3 admission charge)."
David Write
New York Classical Review
"Tenor Andrew Bidlack (Andy, the homeless teen) and bass-baritone Joseph Beutel (Troy, the hustler) were among the cast’s stronger singers."
Helen Waleson
The Wall Street Journal
Moby Dick
Chicago Opera Theater
2019
"How fitting, though, that the most beautiful voice in the cast belonged to tenor Andrew Bidlack, who as the everyman Greenhorn stands as the story’s conscience and its most humane and vulnerable persona. By opera’s end, we believe that he has preserved at least a shred of the innocence that Ahab and this narrative otherwise have taken from him."
Howard Reich
Chicago Tribune
"Andrew Bidlack was perfectly cast as Greenhorn (who utters the emblematic phrase “Call me Ismael”). Bidlack’s lyric tenor soared fluidly throughout the evening and boasted an affecting plaintive quality that was quite beautiful, particularly in his moving contemplation of Queequeg’s coffin."
Mark Thomas Ketterson
Opera News
"Bidlack sang with vibrancy and sweet tone in his spotlit moments.”
Lawrence A. Johnson
Chicago Classical Review
"...Andrew Bidlack touchingly conveys the purity and goodness of Greenhorn."
Kyle MacMillan
Chicago Sun Times
Silent Night
Arizona Opera
2019
"Bidlack has a clear, sweet, glorious tenor voice and was the standout of the opera for me."
Maureen Brooks
Green Valley News
"A lyric tenor, Bidlack sang with fluidity and flexibility."
Maria Nockin
Opera Wire
"Tenor Andrew Bidlack as the German opera singer-turned reluctant soldier hit the high end of his register with such sweet tones."
Cathatlena E. Burch
Arizona Daily Star
Everest
Calgary Opera
2019
"Singing from the top of the set into the void and down to his distant, waiting wife at stage level, Bidlack conveyed the emotional range of both dutiful leader coaxing his exhausted, expiring client Doug down the mountain and wistful husband bidding his wife goodbye."
Bill Rankin
Classical Voice North Ameria
"...much of the writing lies quite high in the voices, especially for Hall (Bidlack) and his wife Jan Arnold (Sarah Larsen). Both singers manage the challenge remarkably well in this production, vividly characterizing the immediacy of the threat."
Kenneth DeLong
Calgary Herald
"As the young protagonist Tony, Andrew Bidlack is convincing in his character and easily floats the highest lyrical notes demanded — such as those in the song 'Maria.'"
Mark Gresham
ArtsAtl
"...a Nemorinoesque timbre that was achingly beautiful in its upper reaches."
Stephanie Adrian
Opera News
West Side Story
Atlanta Opera
2018
"Andrew struck just the right vocal balance in 'Something’s Coming,' in which he sounded like a trained, 'legit' singer who occasionally, in the upper range, lapsed into a more open sound. He knew how to vary his tone color, and he could stay with the orchestra, too."
Paul Horsley
Kansas City Independant
"But Tony, oh Tony. What a voice. Everyone will want to change their name to Maria, just to have Bidlack sing to them. It’s exactly the kind of voice that makes a girl fall in love with her big brother’s sworn enemy."
Lonita Cook with Michael Mackie
In Kansas City
"...Tony, a Polish boy, (sung by the excellent tenor Andrew Bidlack)."
Alan Portner
Broadway World
West Side Story
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
2018
"Tenor Andrew Bidlack (Bill) and soprano Zulimar López-Hernández (Tina) were the young hipster couple escaping on vacation together in an attempt to rejuvenate their waning romance. Mr. Bidlack has an effortlessly produced, honeyed lyric tenor who brings Rossinian grace and fluidity to his rangy vocal lines. His rolled eyes and put-upon shrugs as his wife keeps picking at him were boyishly engaging."
James Sohre
Opera Today
"There was particularly impressive work from Andrew Bidlack as Bill and Theo Hoffman as the randy Steward."
Mark Thomas Ketterson
Opera News
Flight
Des Moines Metro Opera
2018
"Andrew Bidlack, who has been seen several times in major roles at FGO, was a very good Arcadio, an actor who knows how to take command of a scene and get the audience to home in. He has a virile and exciting tenor that was a pleasure to hear, and he was excellent in duet with López."
Gret Stepanich
Palm Beach Arts Paper
"Making his fifth appearance with FGO, tenor Andrew Bidlack punctuated the thwarted ambitions of Rosalba's love interest, Arcadio, with a ringing upper register."
Celeste Landeros
Opera News
"Surprisingly effective is Andrew Bidlack, a Pennsylvania tenor whose part as the disillusioned deckhand could have been boringly predictable, but he invests the young man with a yearning that audience members could relate to as he describes his dream of being able to fly."
Bill Hirschman
Florida Sun-Sentinel
"As her lover, the captain’s nephew Arcadio, the tenor Andrew Bidlack came off as her counterpart in earnest, youthful idealism, with his dreams of leaving the river to become a pilot."
David Fleshler
South Florida Classical Review
Florencia en el Amazonas
Florida Grand Opera
2018
"Lyric tenor Andrew Bidlack sang Almaviva with flexible tones and even decorated some of his lines. His 'Ecco ridente in cielo' ('There is laughing in the sky') was a triumphant vocal showpiece and his character's multiple identity changes made this a fascinating portrayal to watch. Most outstanding was his substitute music teacher performed in drag as the well- endowed 'Donna Alonsa.' The audience shrieked with laughter when Bartolo tore 'her' wig off."
Maria Nockin
Broadway World
"...Andrew Bidlack positively threw out the book as a hell-raising, cross-dressing Count Almaviva ."
Charles Donelan
The Santa Barbara Independant
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Opera Santa Barbara
2018
"Andrew Bidlack, meanwhile, was an excellent Beppe, singing his cavatina “O, Colombina” with light tone and flowing phrases."
Eric C. Simpson
New York Classical Review
"Tenor Andrew Bidlack sang Arlecchino's serenade with pleasing tone and sensitive phrasing."
Joshua Rosenblum
Opera News
"Rihab Chaieb has a resiny cameo as Lola in 'Cav,' Andrew Bidlack a charming one as Beppe in 'Pag.'"
Zachary Woolfe
The New York Times
"Andrew Bidlack brought a promising tenor to the role of Peppe, singing with tenderness."
Francisco Salazar
Opera Wire
"Young Andrew Bidlack as Beppe...exhibited a fine tenor instrument..."
Robert Levine
Bachtrack
I pagliacci
The Metropolitan Opera
2018
Zémire et Azor
Opera Saratoga
2017
"The real discovery was the Azor, Andrew Bidlack, an artist I'd previously heard only in contemporary music. His tenor coped easily with the role's high tessitura, as well as the light ornamentation and dynamic contrast that Grétry requests, and he phrased with distinction and feeling. Bidlack, who seems a natural for the haute-contre roles of Rameau and Gluck, also made a credibly handsome Prince after the transformation wrought by Zémire's love."
David Shengold
Opera News
"Finally, Andrew Bidlack, as the voice and soul of Azor, was an utter knockout. The rich, mature and luxurious chiaroscuro of Bidlack's tenor endowed the beast with a constant and invaluable fascination - a masterfully sustained mix of menace and tragic pathos. Outfitted in a glamorously sinister capuchin monk's robe and hood, Bidlack stalked the stairways and side platforms as he gave voice to the animated Azor puppet center stage, and the effect was stunning - a mesmerizing, split-screen/simulcast, as it were, of both the creature's grotesque exterior, and the passionate, shrouded soul within.
While sung in French, the production featured passages of fleet, efficient, operetta-style English dialogue bridging numbers. Bidlack, speaking as Azor, was particularly effective, conveying angsty authority tinged with just the right note of vulnerability."
Charles Geyer
La scena musicale
In Parenthesis
Welsh National Opera
2016
"Andrew Bidlack, as Private John Ball, scaled magnificently what must be one of the most ambitious leading operatic roles in recent times, his flexible tenor encompassing not only the character's bumbling attempts at soldiering but the ecstasy of his inner vision... Bidlack, magnificent in the challenging lead role."
Peter Reynolds
Opera Now
"Bell puts his tenor protagonist under huge pressure by treating him as a vocal high-wire acrobat, and the American Andrew Bidlack, making his European debut, made a very strong impression as the innocent, fresh-faced Ball, agile of technique, absolutely secure and sweet-toned in the lyrical moments when wandering into his own imagination..."
Rian Evans
Opera Magazine
"Two things emerge: the extraordinary vision that is Jones's legacy in art and literarture; and the talent of tenor Andrew Bidlack who, as Private Ball, sings heroically."
Rian Evans
The Guardian
"Andrew Bidlack puts his grateful, bel canto tenor to tireless use."
Peter Quantrill
Gramophone
"...several solos and duets are beautiful, especially the writing for the gloriously voiced American bel canto tenor Andrew Bidlack who sings the troubled Private John Ball as he and his fellow soldiers journey to the horrors of Mametz Wood."
Mike Smith
Wales Online
"And there is much lovely individual writing, especially for Ball himself, eloquently sung by the American bel canto tenor Andrew Bidlack."
Stephen Walsh
The Arts Desk
"Andrew Bidlack...excelled as Ball..."
Steph Power
The Independant
"There's endearing singing and acting from the American tenor Andrew Bidlack as the hapless but inspired Private Ball;..."
Rupert Christiansen
The Telegraph
Everest
Dallas Opera
2015
"The opera was strongly cast with singers who, true to the assignment, brought out the humanity of the characters...Best of all was Andrew Bidlack, in his appealing stage presence every bit the sympathetic leader, with a pellucid tenor that seemed to emanate from the Himalayan air itself."
Fred Cohn
Opera News
”... Rob, played by tenor Andrew Bidlack, responds in a crystalline tenor voice that floats across the opera house and nearly destroys you with its message and tone. “Doug can hear you,” he cries. Andrew Bidlack is, for me, the star of the entire production. His voice is clear, bright, pristine, and subtly strong. When he stands on Everest’s summit and sings about being on top of the world, you want to join him. His duets with his wife, Jan, played by the powerful Sasha Cooke, are charming. ... Both Cooke and Bidlack, by the way, are dealt a difficult hand in this piece in terms of range, but they find and execute a slew of extremely high notes with precision.”
Catherine Womack
D Magazine
“The excellent cast made fine work of Mr. Talbot’s expressive vocal writing. Andrew Bidlack’s sweet tenor brought a touching vulnerability to Rob. The opera’s most devastating passage was his final telephone conversation with Jan, the powerful Sasha Cooke, as he is dying on the mountain, when the two let go of their anguish to simply comfort each other.”
Heidi Waleson
The Wall Street Journal
“Andrew Bidlack’s sweet-voiced tenor expressed Hall’s hopes and fears poignantly.”
George Loomis
Financial Times
“Tenor Andrew Bidlack is sympathetic as Rob Hall, trapped between his sense of duty and impending fatherhood. His clear and versatile lyric tenor voice sails through his range-challenging music, with great nobility of spirit alternating with grim determination.”
Gregory Sullivan Isaacs
Theater Jones
“Bidlack’s performance as Rob Hall is achingly adept, and his duets with mezzo Sasha Cooke as his wife Jan are tender and and heartfelt. They are the standouts.”
Arnold Wayne Jones
Dallas Voice
"This narrative is brought to life by the stunning talent of Andrew Bidlack as the expedition leader, Rob Hall..."
Lauren Smart
The Dallas Observer
Die Zauberflöte
Florida Grand Opera
2013
“Bidlack manages to look and sound valiant while singing ‘Dies Bildnis’ in pajamas, with a smooth legato and heroic top notes. His manner and tone perfectly matched the youthful, but determined prince who is willing to meet any danger to rescue the Queen’s beautiful daughter, Pamina.”
David Fleshler
The Miami Herald
“...Andrew Bidlack was an especially noteworthy Tamino.”
Karyl Charna Lynn
Opera Now
“...Bidlack was without a doubt the best voice of the night; expansive, strong, focused, always on pitch and very secure in a role that was reduced to an interplay within a dream.”
Daniel Fernández
El Nuevo Herald
“Bidlack’s voice is crystal clear and has a beauty of tone not often found in Mozart tenors. He is charming and handsome and makes the perfect storybook prince for this fantasy role.”
Jack Gardner
EDGE Ft. Lauderdale