Bass-baritone André Henriques has a degree in Voice from the School of Music at the Conservatório Nacional (Portugal) where he studied with António Wagner Diniz. Receiving a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, he continued his studies in Opera Performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where he studied with Donald Maxwell. Currently, he is a student of Lúcia Lemos.

Among the various projects in which he has featured, the highlight was the world premiere of Canção do Bandido by Nuno Côrte-Real and Pedro Mexia, directed by Ricardo Neves-Neves in a co-production between the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos and the Teatro da Trindade/Força de Produção, where he sang the role of Macaco. Other highlights include the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra conducted by Pedro Amaral; and the bass-baritone soloist in Haydn’s Die Schöpfung at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, conducted by Leonardo Garcia Alarcón.

Recently, he sang the bass in Miguel Azguime’s A Laugh to Cry in O’culto da Ajuda conducted by Pedro Neves; Bellini Belcanto in The Ring of the Unicorn, in a production by the Teatro do Eléctrico; Don Parmenione in L’occasione fa il ladro by Rossini at the Sintra Music Festival; and Don Alvaro in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims at the Centro Cultural de Belém.

This is his debut with Opera Rara.