Our Artists
RICHARD ANDERSON
Background: Studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and The Australian National University’s School of Music. Was a member of the Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Program (2003 to 2004). For Opera Queensland: Jack Wallace and Billy Jackrabbit in The Girl of the Golden West, Rocco in Fidelio. Other engagements/Australia: Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, De Brétigny in Manon, Swallow in Peter Grimes, Colline in La bohème, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Ratcliffe in Billy Budd, Publio in La clemenza di Tito, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Achilla and Curio in Giulio Cesare, Hermann and Schlemil in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Biterolf in Tannhäuser, Count Ribbing in Un ballo in maschera, Apollyon, Mistrust and Envy in The Pilgrim’s Progress, Steward and Sentry in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Servant in Capriccio, Doctor Grenvil and Messenger in La traviata, Noble in Lohengrin, Sciarrone and Gaoler in Tosca, Officer in The Barber of Seville, Sparafucile and Count Ceprano in Rigoletto, Bonze and Imperial Commissioner in Madama Butterfly, Soldier in Salome, Servant in Lulu, Cascada in The Merry Widow, Officer in Madeline Lee, High Priest of Baal in Nabucco, Magic Christian in Rinaldo, Second Armoured Man in The Magic Flute, Ashby in La fanciulla del West (Opera Australia), Ariadeno in L’Ormindo, Achis in David et Jonathan (Pinchgut Opera), Orderly in Hin und Zurück, Piffalah in Angélique, Earl of Dunmow in A Dinner Engagement (Stopera). Concert repertoire: Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem, Coronation Mass and Mass in C minor, Handel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus, Bach’s St John Passion and Mass in B minor. Upcoming engagements: Title role in The Mikado (Opera Queensland), Sarastro in The Magic Flute, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Jew 5 and Soldier 1 in Salome (Opera Australia).