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ANDREW RUPP

Baritone

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"The stand-out performance comes from Andrew Rupp as Jean."
- The Independent on Sunday

"Andrew Rupp gave a convincing portrayal of the ruthless Jean...His appealing baritone sound demonstrated a wide range of colour from long melodic lines exuding seductive charm to the disjointed motifs of an aggressive egoist."
- MusicWeb International

Andrew Rupp made his operatic debut as The Vicar Albert Herring for British Youth Opera, a role he has repeated for Glyndebourne Touring Opera. Other roles have included John The Last Supper (Berliner Staatsoper and Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Operas), The Traveller Curlew River and Aeneas Dido and Aeneas (Aix-en-Provence Festival), Demetrius A Midsummer Night's Dream, Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, Eisenstein Die Fledermaus and The Musicmaster Ariadne auf Naxos (English Touring Opera), Junius The Rape of Lucretia (Théâtre de Caen), The Steward Flight (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Tomés The Kiss (Opera Theatre Company, Dublin), Kilian Der Freischütz (Opéra de Lausanne) and Sharpless Madam Butterfly (for Raymond Gubbay at the Royal Albert Hall). He created Nathan Byrd in the première of McQueen's Hollow Hill at the Buxton Festival.

In concert Andrew Rupp has performed in the UK, the USA, France, Italy, Japan, Scandinavia and Switzerland. He appeared in the première of John Tavener's The Veil of the Temple, and his repertoire includes Bach B Minor Mass, Christmas Oratorio and St Matthew Passion, Elgar Coronation Ode, The Dream of Gerontius and The Kingdom, Handel Acis and Galatea and Messiah, Haydn Nelson Mass, Orff Carmina Burana, and Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Five Mystical Songs and A Sea Symphony. Recent engagements have included Ivan the Barber The Nose for The Opera Group and The Veil of the Temple at the Brighton Festival.

Recent and future highlights include Balstrode Peter Grimes for Opera North, Jean in Philippe Boesmans' opera Julie for Music Theatre Wales, John in Birtwistle's The Last Supper in Milan and Turin with the London Sinfonietta, Aeneas Dido and Aeneas as part of the 2008 Temple Festival, and Dancairo Carmen for Raymond Gubbay Ltd.

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