Reader Submission: Andrew Wannigman

 

Our latest Reader Submission is Andrew Wannigman, who is performing Maximilian in Skylark Opera's production of Bernstein's Candide. There are two performances left on June 20th and 22nd and tickets are available at Ticketworks.com or by calling 612-343-3390

Andrew Wannigman has performed with the Central City Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Opera New Hampshire, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre and Opera North since his 2007 graduation from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Last spring, he premiered the role of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and covered the title role in Justine F. Chen and David Simpatico’s The Turing Project with American Lyric Theater in New York City.

Andrew Wannigman

While completing his master’s degree at the New England Conservatory, he also performed with Longwood Opera, Boston Opera Collaborative, Juventas New Music Ensemble and the Plainsong in Boston.  He was also a section leader and soloist with the First Church in Chestnut Hill and St. John the Evangelist.

For two years, he was a resident artist with the Des Moines Metro Opera performing in their Opera Iowa outreach troupe and also as an apprentice artist for their summer festival.  He performed Figaro in Rossini's Barber of Seville, Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute, and covered Dr. Malatesta in their mainstage production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale. 

Andrew Wannigman sings Debussy's Le promenoir des deux amants:

Wannigman is also been active as a soloist in both concerts and recitals. At Luther College, he was a soloist for Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and Beethoven’s Mass in C. In Boston, he performed the premiere of Lori Dobbins’ Rage of Achilles, a recital of songs by Charles Ives and Mass for Baritone & Piano by Randall Despommier at Jordan Hall.

Upcoming roles for Wannigman include Sciarrone in Puccini's Tosca with Mill City Summer Opera and a role debut as Escamillo next season.

Cairan Ryan and Nathan Wyatt headed to Tanglewood

Cairan Ryan and Nathan Wyatt

Nathan Wyatt and Cairan Ryan, two talented young artists who were recently featured on this site have been accepted into the 2014 Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Arts Program.

They will work with three legendary singers, Phyllis Curtin, Dawn Upshaw and Stephanie Blythe, as well as other coaches. During their residency they will hone their skills in art song, contemporary music, chamber music, and orchestral projects under the instruction of resident and visiting faculty artists.

This season, they will participate in a performance of Bernstein's Candide with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Koussevitsky Music Shed, as well as performances with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, which will perform Berlioz's Les nuits d'été and other works.

Cairan Ryan was born in Lier, Belgium and emigrated to Calgary, Alberta. He is currently in his second year as a young artist at the Atelier Lyrique de L'Opéra de Montréal. Ryan makes his French debut on May 10 at Choregies d'Orange in a free concert of arias and duets with soprano Marlene Assayag, mezzo-soprano Beste Kalender and tenor Enguerrand De Hys.

In March, Wyatt performed the world premiere of Nico Muhly's work for baritone and orchestra, Pleasure Ground, with the Cincinnati Symphony as part of the MusicNOW Festival. In May, he sings the role of the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro with the American Dream Theater.