Andrew Nolen

Current and upcoming projects of American bass Andrew Nolen include GEORGE BUNTING in Phyllis Tate’s The Lodger Wuppertaler Bühnen, ALIDORO La Cenerentola Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Die Nase and 5. JUDE Salome Komische Oper Berlin, BENOIT/ALCINDORO La bohème Theater St. Gallen and Atlanta Opera, and COUNCILMAN Breaking the Waves Opéra Comique.

Recent engagements include RAMFIS Aida on tour in Germany, including Hamburg, Berlin and Munich, HOTEL MANAGER Powder her Face and DER ALTE Die Gespenstersonate Semperoper Dresden/Semper Zwei, the world premiere of Im Stein by Sara Glojnarić and Clemens Meyer Oper Halle, URILAS in Keiser’s Ulysses Schwetzinger Festspiele, BASILIO Il barbiere di Siviglia Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, and BANCO Macbeth Staatstheater Schwerin. As a member of the ensemble of Theater Krefeld-Mönchengladbach roles included LEPORELLO Don Giovanni, FIGARO Le Nozze di Figaro, OROVESO Norma, SWALLOW Peter Grimes, ORSINI Rienzi, JOHN SOREL The Consul, ZACCHARIA Nabucco, KULIGIN Káťa Kabanová, and SAM Un ballo in maschera.

Other past engagements were at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf. Oper Bonn, Oper Dortmund, Lyrique-en-Mer in France, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Dubai Festival Opera, and Beth Morrison Projects. He toured with The Wooster Group to Brussels, Rotterdam, Edenborough, Luxembourg, New York and Los Angeles. He has recorded with Bridge Records and is the bass soloist on the Naxos box set of Haydn’s complete masses. As bass soloist he appeared with Niederrheinische Sinfoniker, Philharmonie Essen, and Gloria Dei Cantores, Cape Cod.

Nolen trained at Oberlin Conservatory, Cincinnati Conservatory, and the Juilliard Opera Center, and was an apprentice artist with Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Opera Theater of St. Louis. He has worked Colin Graham, Elizabeth LeCompte, Frank Corsaro, Julius Rudel, Robert Shaw, Ton Koopman, Jane Glover, Robert Spano, and Stephen Lord.