Tenor Andrew Haji is one of the most sought-after voices on concert and operatic stages across North America and Europe. Applauded at his debut for the Edinburgh Festival in Handel’s Saul, Haji’s upcoming season includes debuts with the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, and NDR Hannover. As well, Andrew makes returns with the Houston Symphony, at Carnegie Hall with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society. Conductors of note with whom he collaborates include Manfred Honeck, Bernard Labadie, Jonathan Cohen, Andrew Manze, Rafael Payare and Alexander Shelley. On the opera stage, Andrew debuts the title role in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito for Pacific Opera Victoria.
During the 23/24 season, the Ontarian appeared with the Seattle Symphony and Grand Philharmonic Choir (Bach’s Johannes Passion), Victoria Symphony (Messiah), Calgary Symphony (Bruckner’s Te Deum), Carnegie Hall (Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium), Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (Verdi’s Requiem) and at the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9), where he last appeared as Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
During the first post-pandemic season, he debuted at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan in his signature role of Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, appeared as MacDuff in Macbeth for Calgary Opera, as Alfredo in La traviata with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony and as Rodolfo in La bohème for Montreal’s Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes, both in a semi-staged format. Other notable appearances include Les Violons du Roy (Bach Cantatas), Chorus Niagara (Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (Haydn’s Creation), the Victoria Symphony (Mozart’s Requiem), La bohème with Edmonton Opera, La traviata with Calgary Opera, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Victoria Symphony and Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Elora Festival.
During the COVID crisis, Andrew starred in various digital and streaming productions, including Against the Grain Theatre’s acclaimed video of Holst’s Sāvitri, Mozart’s Requiem for the Canadian Opera Company and as Rinuccio in the company’s streamed production of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, returning to the stage for Opéra de Québec’s Il barbiere de Siviglia, reprising the role of Count Almaviva.
With a broad-based repertoire, he has been heard as Pollione in Bellini’s Norma, as Cassio in Otello for the Canadian Opera Company, Alfredo in Die Fledermaus and Rossini’s Stabat Mater. A native-born Ontarian, he has received awards from the Marilyn Horne Song Competition, the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble, and was the winner of the Grand Prix at the 50th International Vocal Competition in ’s-Hertogenbosch and the Montreal International Music Competition’s Oratorio Prize.
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