Andrew Henley

Andrew Henley
  • Der fliegende Holländer – Der Steuermann
  • Der Rosenkavalier – The Marschallin’s Major-Domo/Third Marschallin’s Footman/Innkeeper

 

Hailing from Monmouth, British-Irish tenor Andrew Henley studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and is a graduate of the National Opera Studio. He was the winner of the 2019 Dunraven Young Welsh Singer of the Year, the 2023 John Scott Award from Scottish Opera and the 2025 Pendine International Voice of the Future Award at the Llangollen International Eisteddford.

Operatic engagements have included The Tenor (Trauernacht), Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet) and Voleur de Lune (Der Mond) with Opéra de Lyon, Heinrich der Schreiber (Tannhäuser) with the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Tybalt (Roméo et Juliette) with the Immling Festival, Father Grenville (Dead Man Walking) and cover of Candide (Candide) with Welsh National Opera, Officer and cover of Armand (Thérèse), Tenor Soloist on the Spring 2023 Opera Highlights Tour and cover of Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) with Scottish Opera, cover of Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) with Glyndebourne, excerpts of Rodolfo (La Bohème) with Royal Opera House Learning + Participation, Barbarigo (I due Foscari) with Chelsea Opera Group, Barigoule (Cendrillon) with Buxton International Festival, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) with Clonter Opera, Novice (Billy Budd) with the St. Endellion Festival and Lechmere (Owen Wingrave) with British Youth Opera. 2024/25 engagements include The Son (The Critic) and Rodolfo in (Puccini: Man of the Theatre) with Wexford Festival Opera, cover of Vitek (The Makropulos Affair) with Scottish Opera, Camille de Rosillon (Die Lustige Witwe) with the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater and Der Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer) with Saffron Opera Group.

Concert engagements have included Mendelssohn’s Elijah at Cadogan Hall with the City of London Sinfonia, an opera highlights concert with the Welsh National Orchestra conducted by Carlo Rizzi at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor at Wells Cathedral, Verdi’s Requiem at St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, conducted by Nicholas McGegan, both with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Birmingham Symphony Hall. This season’s concerts include Rossini’s Stabat Mater at St Giles Cripplegate, Bach’s St John Passion tenor solos at Southwark Cathedral and Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Festival Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra.