©Andrew Staples
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, Andrew brings a collaborative approach and a passion to tell better stories that build connections between artists and audiences.
A multifaceted musician
As a distinguished tenor, he has collaborated with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, Emmanuelle Haïm, Elim Chan, Gustavo Dudamel, François-Xavier Roth, with renowned orchestras such as Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Les Siècles, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, il Pomo D’Oro, among others.
On the opera stage
Staples made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden with Fidelio (Jacquino), returning for Capriccio (Flamand), Die Zauberflöte (Tamino), Katya Kabanova (Tichon) and Salome (Narraboth). Staples has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, the National Theatre Prague, La Monnaie Brussels, the Salzburger Festspiele, Hamburg Staatsoper, Theater an der Wien, the Lucerne Festival, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 2023-24 season he performed Beethoven’s Fidelio (Florestan) with Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel; and Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos (Bacchus) with Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer.
A vision beyond the voice
Andrew’s work as a film and stage director and photographer combines a passion for weaving art, music, and digital realms, aiming to encapsulate the beauty of classical music and the broader arts. His past collaborations include special performance of Stravinsky’s Firebird for Air France in a hangar at Charles de Gaulle airport in collaboration with Arte, Daniel Harding and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. He directed Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with Alice Sara Ott for DG Stage+ and a film of The Planets for the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is also collaborating with Daniel Harding on a documentary series in Guangzhou, China, which will cover the Youth Music Culture The Greater Bay Area (YMCG) project over five years.
“Staples’s voice has such tone and power, unlocking the hidden meaning in the words.”
“Andrew Staples was valiant in launching Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (The Drinking Song of Earth’s Sorrow). His soaring forte was well balanced with the brass fanfare, and his good diction registered despite those tricky melismatic moments.”
“Staples no less than Kozena succeeded in projecting beyond the Barbican’s empty space, and peeling away the ironized varnish of the faux-Chinois lyrics to reveal an eroticism that in Mahler seems more often sublimated in expressions of religiose ecstasy (never more so than the concluding ‘Ewig-Weibliche’ of the Eighth).”
Directed and filmed by Andrew Staples
Film by Andrew Staples and Classical Films
Directed and filmed by Andrew Staples
Filmed and produced by Andrew Staples
Andrew Staples singing Elgar: Dream of Gerontius
Filmed and produced by Andrew Staples