Andrew Moore

The American bass-baritone Andrew Moore is a member of the ensemble of the Zurich Opera House. Following his performances in Werther at the Salzburg Festival, his appearances in Zurich during the 2026/27 season will include Belcore (L’elisir d’amore) under Michele Spotti, Biterolf (Tannhäuser), Publio (La clemenza di Tito) under Gianluca Capuano and Count Capulet (Roméo et Juliette). His guest engagements will include his role debut as Angelotti (Tosca) with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel at Carnegie Hall and a return to the Opéra de Monte-Carlo as Zuniga (Carmen).

During the 2025/26 season at the Zurich Opera House, Andrew Moore sang the title role of Le nozze di Figaro, Monsieur de Brétigny (Manon) under Sesto Quatrini and, in new productions, Publio under Marc Minkowski and Biterolf. Other roles that he has sung in Zurich as an ensemble member include Leporello and Masetto (Don Giovanni), Paolo Albiani (Simon Boccanegra), Périchaud (La rondine), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Lukas in Elena Kats-Chernin’s Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer, Johann (Werther), Pritschitsch (Die lustige Witwe), Marquis d’Obigny (La traviata), Marullo (Rigoletto), Pâris (Roméo et Juliette), Le Gouverneur (Le Comte Ory), Fix in the world premiere of Jonathan Dove’s In 80 Tagen um die Welt (Around the World in 80 Days), Paqui in the world premiere of Beat Furrer’s Das große Feuer, Mamma Agata in Donizetti’s Viva la Mamma, Odysseus in Leonard Evers’s Die Odyssee, Witness 3 /Madman in George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence and Kilian (Der Freischütz).

Away from Zurich Andrew Moore has sung the roles of Dodo, Frog-Footman and Seven in a concert performance of Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Marquis d’Obigny in a concert performance of La traviata at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2025, Fléville (Andrea Chénier) in his debut at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the bass solo in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw. His opera repertory also includes Basilio and Fiorello (Il barbiere di Siviglia), the title role of Gianni Schicchi, Talpa (Il tabarro), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Tree (L’Enfant et les Sortilèges), Keeper of the Madhouse (The Rake’s Progress) and Adonis in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis.

Andrew Moore is from New Jersey, and trained at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. From 2020 he was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House. He has been a member of the ensemble since the 2022/23 season.