Few countertenors have pushed the boundaries of repertoire and sound more than Andrew Watts, making him a unique performer not only of parts traditionally associated with the voice type, but also a pioneer of 20th and 21st century repertoire, having performed over 60 world premieres. He is associated particularly with the part of Edgar in Reiman’s Lear, which he has performed at Staatsoper Hamburg, Opéra national de Paris, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Staatsoper Hannover, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich and Teatro Real Madrid.
As well as singing core roles of the countertenor repertoire such as Ottone Agrippina (Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon), Athamas Semele (Oper Graz) and Arsamene Xerxes (English National Opera), Oberon A Midsummer’s Night Dream and Prince Go-Go (Komische Oper Berlin, ENO, Oper Graz) he has also performed parts less frequently done by counter-tenors like Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Dutch National Opera, Stanislavsky Theatre, Moscow) and Orlofsky Die Fledermaus (Oper Graz).
Recent and upcoming highlights include his debut with the New York Philharmonic (Keyframes of a Hippogriff), with the Wiener Staatsoper as Prince Go-Go Le grand macabre, as well as returns to Festival Présences and the Bayerische Staatsoper as Orlofsky in Barrie Kosky’s production of Die Fledermaus.