Andrew Bidlack

• Tenor

About

Tenor Andrew Bidlack, in his last year as an Adler Fellow, made his San Francisco Opera debut in May 2008 in The Little Prince and has since appeared as Odoardo (Ariodante), Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Count Albert (Die Tote Stadt), the Simpleton (Boris Godunov) and Gastone (La Traviata). A 2007 Merola Opera Program participant, Andrew Bidlack created the role of Charles Carter in the world premiere of Thomas Pasatieri’s The Hotel Casablanca.

The Pennsylvania native has appeared as Rodolfo (La Bohème) with the Opera Company of Brooklyn, Tamino (The Magic . . . Flute) at Ohio Northern University, and Rolla (I Masnadieri) with Sarasota Opera. At the Spoleto Festival in Italy, he performed the role of A Guest in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street, which was recorded and released under the Chandos label. With Philadelphia's Temple University Opera Theater he performed the title-role in Candide and Tom Snout (A Midsummer Night's Dream). Concert performances include the tenor solos in Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Mozart’s Requiem.