Andrew Greenan
Artist Reviews
"(The soloists) were led by Andrew Greenan's commanding Gurnemanz, who quickly brought focus to Act 1 in a beautifully measured and tireless account of his monologue and had the resources and imagination for all the rapture of Act 3. Greenan was impressive enough as Saffron Opera's Sachs and Wotan, and his Gurnemanz was on even higher form."
“And as ever when hearing Wagner in the concert hall, there were things to discover and to delight in, as well as those moments when the whole performance seemed to transcend itself, and the lack of any theatrical setting ceased to matter. Here, the most spellbinding of those moments came at the beginning of the third act, with the confrontation between Hilary Summers’ regal Erda and Greenan’s Wanderer – an irresistible moral force meeting an immovable object.”
After his wise Pogner, Greenan was the more traditional, older Sachs in Act 3, gently insinuating the gravitas and veiled lyricism of the ‘Wahn’ monologue, underpinning a beautifully layered quintet, then rising to the occasion in his 'Deutsche Kunst' peroration. The Meistersinger ethos emerged in all his glory.
Greenan’s luxuriously deep-pile bass....
Biography
Anglo-French bass, Andrew Greenan was a Choral Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge and read Modern Languages. He studied with John Cameron at the Royal Northern College of Music and, whilst there, made his operatic debut in Schoenberg’s Die Glückliche Hand at La Scala, Milan and sang for three successive seasons in the Bayreuther Festspielchor.
His comprehensive concert repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to the present day. Highlights include Messiah (Huddersfield Choral Society) St Matthew Passion (RLPO), Mozart Requiem (Royal Festival Hall), Verdi Requiem (St Paul’s Cathedral), Creation (Singapore SO), Dream of Gerontius, Belshazzar’s Feast and Elijah, all at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, and Mahler 8th Symphony at Bridgewater Hall, as well as Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with NYOGB under Vasily Petrenko. Among others, he has also appeared with Pappano, Runnicles, Rizzi, Slatkin, Nelsons, de Waart, Rustioni, Karabits and Metzmacher.
Recordings include The Nightingale, The Flood and Oedipus Rex in Robert Craft’s Stravinsky cycle with the Philharmonia, Parsifal with the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder, Sir Colin Davis’ Grammy winning Les Troyens (LSO) and Der Wirt in Der Schatzgräber (Schreker)with Netherlands Opera under Marc Albrecht. He also sings the Baron of Lindenberg in Raymond and Agnes by Edward J Loder conducted by Richard Bonynge.
Contemporary work includes James MacMillan’s Since it was the Day of Preparation….with the Hebrides Ensemble at the Amsterdam Muziekgebouw and the world première of Ed Jones’ Arctic Elegy conducted by the composer.
His 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 (Heinrich Lohengrin with Augin), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (with Solti, Haitink, von Dohnányi, Bychkov, Mackerras and Hickox), Hamburg (Peter Grimes), Paris – Châtelet (Arabella), Bordeaux, Brussels, Lyon, Geneva, San Diego (Cecil Maria Stuarda and Ochs Der Rosenkavalier), Pittsburgh (Salome) Cape Town, Oviedo (Marke Tristan und Isolde), Nancy (Wozzeck,Tannhäuser, Rusalka, Fidelio), San Francisco (Meistersinger) Seattle (Parsifal), Turin (Bottom), New Israeli Opera (Samson et Dalila), Wiener Volksoper (Sarastro), Glyndebourne (Pelléas et Melisande), Longborough (Alberich Das Rheingold), Prague National Theatre (Falstaff) and Opéra Comique, Paris (Albert Herring)
Recent engagements include On the Town for Hyogo International Festival, Varlaam Boris Godunov at Staatstheater Mainz, Hagen Götterdämmerung in Edinburgh, Der Müller Der Traumgörge (Zemlinsky) in Nancy and Dijon Hans Sachs Die Meistersinger, Wotan Die Walküre, Der Wanderer Siegfried and Gurnemanz Parsifal for Saffron Opera Group, Verdi Requiem in the Chapel of King’s College Cambridge, Messiah with the CBSO and Swallow Peter Grimes with Bergen Philharmonic under Edward Gardner at both the Bergen and Edinburgh Festivals, as well as in Valencia. He appeared as The General in Sir David Pountney’s production of The Gambler for the Festivale dalle Valle d’Itria and as Baron Ochs at Lithuanian National Opera
Andrew Greenan is a regular Guest Coach at both the Royal Northern College of Music, Trinity Laban and National Opera Studio.
May 2025
For Oratorio and Concert repertoire please scroll down:
| Oratorio and concert rep | |
| Composer | Work |
| Bach | Christmas Oratorio |
| Magnificat | |
| Mass in B Minor | |
| St John Passion | |
| St Matthew Passion | |
| Beethoven | Choral Fantasia |
| Mass in C | |
| Mass in D (Missa Solemnis) | |
| Symphony No 9 | |
| Berlioz | L’enfance du Christ |
| Brahms | German Requiem |
| Liebeslieder-Wältzer | |
| Bruckner | Masses |
| Te Deum | |
| Durufle | Requiem |
| Dvorak | Mass in D |
| Requiem | |
| Stabat Mater | |
| Te Deum | |
| Elgar | Dream of Gerontius |
| The Apostles preferred role Judas | |
| The Kingdom | |
| Faure | Requiem |
| Handel | Acis and Galatea |
| Alexander’s Feast | |
| Chandos Anthems | |
| Jephtha | |
| Judas Maccabeus | |
| Messiah | |
| Saul | |
| Samson | |
| Haydn | Creation |
| Nelson Mass | |
| Paukenmesse | |
| Seasons | |
| Stabat Mater | |
| Kodaly | Missa Brevis |
| Mahler | Symphony No 8 |
| Mendelssohn | Elijah |
| St Paul | |
| Monteverdi | Vespers |
| Mozart | Masses |
| Requiem | |
| Vespers | |
| Puccini | Messa di Gloria |
| Purcell | Come ye Sons of Art |
| Hail, Bright Cecilia | |
| Rossini | Petite Messe Solenelle |
| Stabat Mater | |
| Schubert | Masses in Eb, Ab & G |
| Stanford | Songs of the Sea |
| Tippett | Child of Our Time |
| Vaughan Williams | Dona Nobis Pacem |
| Five Mystical Songs | |
| Mass in G minor | |
| Verdi | Requiem |
| Walton | Belshazzar’s Feast |