Portrait Concert Olga Neuwirth

Andrew Watts was born in Middlesex, Great Britain, and trained at the Royal Academy of Music. Engagements have taken the countertenor to the Royal Opera House London, the Glyndebourne Festival, La Scala in Milan, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Opéra de Lyon, and to festivals in Salzburg, Bregenz, Lucerne, Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, and the Ruhrtriennale. As Edgar in Reimann’s "Lear" he appeared at the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Opéra de Paris, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and Teatro Real Madrid. His repertoire includes roles such as Ottone ("Agrippina"), Athamas ("Semele"), Arsamene ("Xerxes"), Oberon ("A Midsummer Night’s Dream"), Prince Go-Go ("Le Grand Macabre"), Baba the Turk ("The Rake’s Progress"), and Orlofsky ("Die Fledermaus"). Andrew Watts has also appeared in world premieres by composers including Olga Neuwirth, Harrison Birtwistle, Jörg Widmann, and Unsuk Chin. Most recently, he performed in Olga Neuwirth’s "Keyframes for a Hippogriff" with the New York Philharmonic, as Orlofsky at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and in Unsuk Chin’s "Alice in Wonderland" at the Theater an der Wien.