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Andrew Harris earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Vocal Performance and Master of Music in Piano Performance from universities in the USA. He was a member of the YAP of the Chicago Opera Theater and a scholarship holder at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he later also became an ensemble member.

Andrew Harris is particularly associated with the roles of Fafner, Fasolt and Hunding in Wagner’ s Ring Cycle, which he has also sung in Berlin in the new RING production staged by Stefan Herheim and conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles. His roles also include Stefano Colonna/Rienzi, Reinmar von Zweter/Tannhäuser, Titurel/Parsifal, Doktor/Wozzeck, Roger Mortimer/Edward II, Don Basilio/Il barbiere di Siviglia, Timur/Turandot, Masetto/Don Giovanni, Quince/A Midsummer Night's Dream, Luther and Crespel/Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Alessio/La sonnambula, Marcel/Les Huguenots, Count Horn/Un ballo in maschera, La Cuisiniére/Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen and Sparafucile/ Rigoletto.

Guest engagements have taken him to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Norwegian Opera in Oslo, Santa Fe Opera, Madrid as well as to the Innsbruck Early Music Festival. He also sang Fafner in a semi-staged performance of Das Rheingold conducted by Vladimir Jurowski in Moscow and made his debut at La Scala in Milan in live streaming productions of Salome, Weills' Mahagonny Songspiel and 7 Deadly Signs conducted by Riccardo Chailly. 2022 he returned to the Bavarian State Opera Munich in a new production of Pendereckis' The Devils of Loudun conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

22/23 season he was a guest at the Daegu International Opera Festival in South Korea as Fafner in Rheingold and Siegfried. He sang again in Munich in the revival of Penderecki's The Devils of Loudun and at the MET he was engaged on a cover contract as Commendatore/ Don Giovanni.
At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, his roles included Sparafucile/ Rigoletto and in Detlev Glanerts' Oceane.

In 23/24 he was  heard in Berlin in the season premiere of Puccini's Il Trittico as well as in the revivals of Aida and Parsifal. He returned to Munich for the revival series of Boris Godunov as Nikititsch. Another highlight was his debut under the baton of Kirill Petrenko with the Berliner Philharmoniker in Baden- Baden and Berlin in R. Strauss’ Elektra and he was heard at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in a concert performance of Unsuk Chins' Alice in Wonderland conducted by Markus Stenz and the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest. He also was a guest in a Kurt Weills' Street Scenes production and Arthur Sullivans' The Pirates of Penzance in Central City, Colorado.

In 24/25 will see his debut with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as Fafner in the RING conducted by Fabio Luisi , he will make his debut at the Semperoper Dresden in Salomé under Juraj Valčuha and he will return to La Scala in Milan in a new production of a Triptych of Kurt Weill with Die Sieben Todsünden, Mahagonny - Songspiel and Happy End under Riccardo Chailly and stage director Irina Brook. At the Deutsche Oper Berlin he will be heard with Badger/Priest in Janáček Cunning Little Vixen.
Recordings include Proving Up by Missy Mazzoli, Pentatone label and Edward II by Andrea Scartazzini, OEHMS label.

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