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Andrew Staples sang as a chorister in St Paul’s Cathedral before winning a Choral Scholarship to King’s College Cambridge, where he gained a degree in Music.  Andrew was the first recipient of the RCM Peter Pears Scholarship, sponsored by the Britten Pears Foundation, at the Royal College of Music and subsequently joined the Benjamin Britten International Opera School.  He studies with Ryland Davies.

His engagements include concerts with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, the Akademisten Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Sir Simon Rattle; the Swedish Radio and London Symphony Orchestra with Daniel Harding; the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Andrew Manze; the Gävle Symphony and Robin Ticciati; the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin; and the Accademia Santa Cecilia with Semyon Bychkov.

He made his Royal Opera House debut as Jacquino (Fidelio), returning for Flamand (*Capriccio*), Tamino (*Die Zauberflöte*), Artabenes (*Arne’s Artaxerxes*) and Narraboth (*Salome*), and sang Belfiore (*La Finta Giardiniera*) for the National Theatre, Prague (a role he repeated in the same production for La Monnaie in Brussels) and Don Ottavio for the Salzburger Festspiele. He has also sung Ferrando for Opera Holland Park and Narraboth for the Hamburgische Staatsoper. He semi-staged and sang Tamino in *Die Zauberflöte* for the Lucerne Festival and in Drottningholm with Daniel Harding conducting.

Future opera engagements include Kudrjas and Luzio (Wagner *Das Liebesverbot*) for both the Royal Opera House and the Teatro Real in Madrid, Froh (Wagner *Das Rheingold*) for the Royal Opera House and the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, and Tamino at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. 

Concert engagements in 2016/17 include Schumann Szenen aus Goethes *Faust* and *Das Paradies und die Peri* with both the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris under Daniel Harding; Bach *St John Passion* with the Accademia Santa Cecilia and Antonio Pappano, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and Adams *Dr Atomic* (Robert Wilson) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra with John Adams conducting.

Recordings include Schumann *Das Paradies und die Peri* with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle (LSO Live); Handel *Messiah* with Le Concert d'Astrée and Emmanuelle Haim (Erato/Warner Classics) and Schumann Szenen aus Goethes *Faust* with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Daniel Harding.
