Andres Cascante

Andres Cascante Baritone

Biography

Born in San José, Costa Rica, Andres Cascante trained at the Juilliard School, San Francisco Opera's Merola Program and the Yale School of Music. In 2017, he was a national semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Actions at the age of 22. He was also a winner of the Opera Index Competition and took third place in the Irene Dalis Competition in 2022.

During his studies at the Juilliard School, he performed not only as a singer but also as an instrumentalist, playing baroque guitar in Luigi Rossi's L'Orfeo with the Juilliard Ensemble415. He continues to study Renaissance lute and Baroque guitar in Paris.

He was Apprentice Artist at Central City Opera, Emerging Artist at Dolora Zajick's Institute Of Young Dramatic Voices and at Thomas Hampson's Waiblingen Opernwerkstatt. Andres Cascante joins the Paris Opera Academy in September 2022. He collaborated with Denis Guéguin on the ciné-récital Nocturne, vidéo en-chantée in autumn 2022, and sang the role of Germano (La Scala di seta) in spring 2023 at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet. He is also a member of the Académie de Chant du Festival d'Aix-En-Provence and the Rossini Academy in Pesaro, the latter offering him the opportunity to perform the role of Don Profondo (Il Viaggio a Reims).

He recently performed the roles of Top (The Tender Land) and Marco (Il Tabarro) at the Teatro Regio in Turin. During the 2024-2025 season, he will portray the Sacristan (Tosca) in Limoges and Vichy.

At the Paris Opera: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (l'Horloge comtoise, le Chat), 2023 ; The Exterminating Angel (Pablo – Cook), 2024

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