Hey there, my name is Andrew. I’m a classically trained baritone and singer, actor, and teacher working and living in Brooklyn, NY.

Whether creating a new role in a world premiere such as Andrews in Iain Bell and Mark Campbell’s “groundbreaking” (New York Times) Stonewall at New York City Opera or making a role debut as Marcello in La Boheme with Union Avenue Opera, Andrew Wannigman has been praised for his “fine dramatic skill” and “engaging baritone” (Broadway World). The St. Louis Limelight wrote of his performance in La Boheme, “Andrew Wannigman as Marcello is delightful as the painter whose eyes are just as expressive as his voice.” Mr. Wannigman followed up that performance with another Puccini favorite, Madama Butterfly, where he made his role debut as Sharpless with Long Island Lyric Opera. With over forty opera and musical theatre roles in his young career, Mr. Wannigman is quickly garnering attention as a versatile singer-actor who is adept both vocally and dramatically in the wide-ranging baritone roles of opera, operetta, musical theatre and a champion of new works. 

Recent performances included a role debut as Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana with Regina Opera, and creating the role of Holofernes in the world premiere of Yehudit, the first modern Chazzanut opera, written by Iris Karlin and performed at Temple Emanu-El. Upcoming Mr. Wannigman performs the role of Elder McLean in Susannah with Delaware Valley Opera and returns to Regina Opera as Silvio in Pagliacci.

Mr. Wannigman’s 2022-23 season includes the title role of Don Giovanni with Long Island Lyric Opera, Dandini in La Cenerentola with SAS Performing Arts, Albert in Werther with Barn Opera in Vermont (cancelled due to Covid-19), Calm/Hiddenfolk Ensemble in the premiere a new opera theater work Iceland at New York’s La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and a role debut as Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus with New Rochelle Opera. On the concert stage, he makes his Carnegie Hall debut as the bass soloist for Marianna Martines’ Dixit Dominus with the Cecelia Chorus of New York under the baton of Mark Shapiro. He also sings the baritone solos for Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Queens College Choral Society as well as the premiere of A Concordance of Leaves composed by Shanan Estreicher, a new wedding cantata for baritone soloist, choir and piano that will be recorded and made available through Naxos Music Library in 2023.

Other recent highlights include All is Calm with Opera North, Danilo in The Merry Widow directed in her own adaptation by the esteemed Dottie Danner as a guest artist with Queens College, Ed Wall in Southeastern Premiere of Frances Pollock’s Stinney, Marcello in La Boheme with KOR Productions and a concert of new works with Fresh Squeezed Opera in New York City. Additional unfortunate cancellations due to Covid-19: Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Long Island Lyric Opera and a return to Mill City Summer Opera to perform Monterone and the title role of Rigoletto.

Wannigman’s 2018-19 season highlights included a diverse set of works: Andrews in the world premiere of Stonewall with New York City Opera, a return to Escamillo for Peter Brooks’ abridged Carmen with City Lyric Opera, a role debut as Marcello in La Boheme with Union Avenue Opera, and Stanley in a New York premiere of Huang Ruo’s Bound with Fresh Squeezed Opera. Wannigman also collaborated with composer J. Mark Stambaugh for the premiere of his piece The Song of the Bow for baritone, harp, trumpets and drums in November.

In the fall of 2017, Mr. Wannigman made his New York City debut as the title role in The Barber of Seville with Amore Opera in New York City. He also premiered a cantata for baritone, horn, and piano based on the last voyage of Ulysses in Dante’s Inferno at the Manhattan School of Music in November by composer faculty member, J. Mark Stambaugh. Other engagements in 2018 include a return to the rarely heard Lee Hoiby opera, Summer and Smoke, as John Buchanan, Jr., his company debut with Natchez Festival of Music in the roles of Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music and Valentin in Faust in May as well as a return to Mill City Summer Opera in July for a role debut as Dancaïre in Carmen.

His other 2016-17 season credits include a pair of bel canto roles: Dandini in Cenerentola with Opéra Louisiane and Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale at the University of Oklahoma, where he completed his doctoral studies under renowned baritone Kim Josephson. He also debuted with Oklahoma City’s new opera company, Painted Sky Opera, as Mr. Gobineau and Pausanias in a double bill of Menotti’s The Medium and Chabrier’s An Incomplete Education. He closed the season as Jigger Craigin in Carousel with Union Avenue Opera where he was praised for his “malevolent presence and a strong [baritone]” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) that was “utterly convincing” (Broadway World).

In the 2015-16 season, Mr. Wannigman performed the title role in Eugene Onegin at the University of Oklahoma, for which he was praised as “tall, dark and imposing, not to mention detached and arrogant, but with a commanding voice, in the title role (The Oklahoman).” He also made his Tulsa Opera debut as Alvaro in Florencia en el Amazonas and returned later that season as Gandalf in The Hobbit with Tulsa Opera’s youth opera program.

An avid recitalist and concert performer, Mr. Wannigman recently performed the baritone solos in Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs with Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City. In past seasons with Westminster, he sang as the baritone soloist for the Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio and The Seven Last Words of Christ by Théodore Dubois as well as performing a concert recital featuring popular arias and songs of Rossini, Mozart and Rodgers and Hammerstein as well as works of Bach, Schumann and Ravel. In 2015, he performed John Adams’ The Wound-Dresser in a rarely seen staged performance as well as a concert recital featuring Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op. 39, Finzi’s Let Us Garlands Bring and songs of Duparc, both with the University of Oklahoma.

Other concert performances include an alumni guest recital at Luther College as well as recitals in Boston, most notably at the acclaimed Jordan Hall. He has also been the soloist in masterworks such as Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven’s Mass in C, and Mozart’s Requiem.