Andrew Stanson

American tenor Andrew Stenson, praised by The Wall Street Journal for his “vivid tenor that is both beautiful and full of raw feeling”, is a graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Program. In addition to singing many of the standard lyric tenor roles, Mr. Stenson has created leading characters in two important World Premieres. He left an indelible impression as Danny Chen in AN AMERICAN SOLDIER with Opera Theater of St. Louis and had a big personal success as Gen Watanabe in the World Premiere of BEL CANTO with Lyric Opera of Chicago, a production televised on PBS. He returned to Chicago to sing Ferrando in COSI FAN TUTTE. Mr. Stenson has sung such roles as Candide, Tamino in THE MAGIC FLUTE, Ernesto in DON PASQUALE, Tonio in LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Almaviva in THE BAR