Andrew Watts (countertenor)

Noteworthy operas with parts written specifically for Watts include The Navigator (Liza Lim), Duchess of Malfi (Torsten Rasch), Alice in Wonderland (Unsuk Chin), Between Worlds (Tansy Davies), The Minotaur and Gawain (Harrison Birtwistle), Homage to Klaus Nomi and The Outcast, Lost Highway, Bählamms Fest (Olga Neuwirth).

Foreign engagements include Staatsoper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Nationaltheater Mannheim, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Theater an der Wien, La Scala Milan, Teatro La Fenice, Opéra National du Rhin, Opera de Lyon, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatro Sao Carlos Lisbon, Grand Theatre de Genève, De Vlaamse Opera, Graz Opera, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Bielefeld and Australia, Canada and Mexico and the Salzburg, Vienna, Dresden, Bregenz, Batignano and Montepulciano Festivals.

He has taken part in many world premieres including Olga Neuwirth's Bählamms Fest and Lost Highway, James in Harrison Birtwistle's The Last Supper and Snake Priestess The Minotaur, White Rabbit and March Hare in Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland, Nuñez' Märchen, Liza Lim's The Navigator, Ian McQueen's Line of Terror, Guarnieri's Medea, Loat Objects for Bang on a Can, Dmitri Smirnov's The Lamentations of Thel, Raymond Yiu's The Original Chinese Conjuror and Symphony, Camille in Michael Finnissy's Thérèse Raquin, Judith Weir's Miss Fortune and The Outcast, Ferdinand in Torsten Rasch's The Duchess of Malfi and Shaman in Tansy Davies' Between Worlds.

Repertoire includes Judas Maccabaeus, Jephtha, Solomon, Messiah, St John Passion, Bach Magnificat, The Indian Queen, Charpentier Te Deum the world premieres of Unsuk Chin's Cantatrix Sopranica, Birtwistle's Orpheus Elegies, Angel Fighter and The Shadow of Night, Oscar Strasnoy's L'instant, works by Guarnieri and Manzoni and Olga Neuwirth's, Homage a Klaus Nomi, La vie…Ulcerante and Five Daily Miniatures.

He features on recordings for ASV of Boyce's Ode for St Cecilia's Day and David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonatan with the Hanover Band and was heard in Sally Potter's film Orlando.