Andrew Moran

Baritone Andrew Moran was a Senior Principal Artist with Opera Australia for over 20 years. He is best remembered for his portrayals of Bartolo (In barbiere di Siviglia), Marcello (La Boheme), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), and Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), for which he was twice nominated for a Green Room Award.

Born in Melbourne, Andrew holds a Bachelor of Music from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and a Graduate Diploma in Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

After joining Opera Australia in 2004, Andrew was a member of the Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Development Program, and subsequently was employed as a full time Principal Artist. Since his debut as The Gamekeeper in Rusalka, he has performed over thirty roles for that company, and they include Ping (Turandot), Ned Keene (Peter Grimes), Geronio (Il Turco in Italia), Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), the Mandarin (Turandot), Demetrius & Starveling (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Fra Melitone (La forza del destino), Morales (Carmen), Marullo (Rigoletto), Sciarrone (Tosca), Christian/Silvano (Un ballo in maschera), Amantio di Nicolao (Gianni Schicci), First Mate (Billy Budd), Yamadori & Imperial Commissioner (Madama Butterfly), Herald (Otello), Sid (La fanciulla del West), Mr Lindquist (A Little Night Music), Antonio (The Gondoliers), Fifth Jew (Salome), Johann (Werther), Alcindoro (La Boheme) and Messenger & Marquis d’Obigny (La traviata). In 2013, Andrew made his Wagnerian debut as Donner in Opera Australia’s first complete Ring Cycle.

Roles he has performed with other companies include Zurga (Les Pecheurs de Perles) and Morales with West Australian Opera, Pooh-Bah (The Mikado) with Opera Queensland, Marcellus (Hamlet) with Adelaide Festival, and Ping with Auckland Philharmonia. He also has extensive experience as a concert artist, performing in Bach’s St John Passion & Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs), Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle (Perth Oratorio Choir), Mozart’s C minor Mass, the Requiems of Mozart, Faure, Michael Haydn and Durufle, Handel’s Messiah and Israel & Egypt, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and A major Mass, and Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs (St George’s Cathedral Choir & Consort, Perth).

As well as Andrew’s experience as a recitalist (Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Poulenc’s Le bal masque) he is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Italian Opera Award, the Phoebe Patrick Award, and the Glyndebourne Festival Prize.