- Der fliegende Holländer – Daland
- Die Meistersinger – Hans Sachs (Act III), Veit Pogner (Acts I & II)
- Der Rosenkavalier – Baron Ochs von Lerchenau
- Tannhäuser – Hermann
- Parsifal – Gurnemanz
- Die Meistersinger – Hans Sachs
- Die Walküre – Wotan
- Siegfried – The Wanderer
Andrew Greenan is proud to have been associated with Saffron Opera Group since its inaugural performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in which he sang Hans Sachs, then to have appeared in the SOG Ring Cycle as Wotan Die (Walküre) and Der Wanderer (Siegfried), followed by Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Landgraf (Tannhäuser) and Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier). In last year’s Die Meistersinger he not only sang Veit Pogner in Acts I and II, but also for the final Act, had the joy, at no notice, of being reunited with the role of Hans Sachs after a gap of ten years!
He was, a Choral Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge where he read Modern Languages before going on to the Royal Northern College of Music to study with John Cameron. During this time he spent three summers as a member of the Bayreuth Festival Chorus, where his first task was to take part in the filming of Harry Kupfer’s production of Der fliegende Holländer in which, he is sadly heard but not seen!
Five years as a Company Principal at English National Opera paved the way for a career that has taken him all over the world, notably to the Metropolitan Opera, New York as König Heinrich (Lohengrin), the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (with Mackerras, Solti, Haitink and Bychkov), Hamburg, Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, the Vienna Volksoper, Bordeaux, Brussels, Lyon, Geneva and Amsterdam. Appearances have also included roles in Tristan und Isolde in Oviedo, Der fliegende Holländer, Wozzeck and Arabella in Nancy, Fidelio in Auckland, Der Rosenkavalier in San Diego, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in San Francisco, Parsifal for Seattle Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Turin, Rusalka for the Wexford Festival, Albert Herring at the Opéra Comique, Paris, Alberich (Das Rheingold) at Longborough Festival, and the title role in Falstaff for the Prague National Theatre.
Most recently he has sung Bernstein’s On the Town in Japan, Swallow (Peter Grimes) with Bergen Philharmonic under Edward Gardner at both the Bergen and Edinburgh Festivals, The General (The Gambler) for the Festivale dalle Valle d’Itria in a new production by Sir David Pountney, and Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier) at Lithuanian National Opera.
One of Andrew’s more unlikely early career achievements saw him appearing in an episode of Dr Who which, due to a strike, was not aired at the time, but is now a collectors’ item on DVD!