Featured by Opera News as one of their ‘25 Rising Stars’ (October 2015), tenor Andrew Bidlack’s recent highlights include his 2016 and 2018 Metropolitan Opera appearances as Beppe I Pagliacci; the principal tenor role in Iain Bell’s world premiere In Parenthesis at Welsh National Opera with performances at Covent Garden in 2016; and the role of Nikolaus Sprinck in Kevin Puts’s Nobel Prize winning Silent Night at Arizona Opera. Other recent successes include his performances as Tony West Side Story at Atlanta Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Latvia; the role of Lyonnel Le Roi Arthus at Bard Summerscape and the Tiroler Festspiel Erl; and the role of Rob Hall in Joby Talbot’s celebrated Everest, a role he inaugurated at Dallas Opera and sang at Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Calgary Opera, Austin Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, and revived at Dallas Opera.  Among his future engagements is a return to Dallas Opera for the premiere of Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Mr. Bidlack opens the 2022-23 season at Odyssey Opera with a double-bill of Rachmaninoff's Aleko/Francesca da Rimini as the Young Gypsy and Paolo.  He then makes his debut at Oper Frankfurt as Augustin Moser Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and later sings Lampionaio/Maestro di ballo and Schmidt in their productions of Manon Lescaut and Werther.  Following this will be a solo recital with Aurelien Eulert at Opera Delaware, and he later performs and records Everest with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Theatre in London.  Other recent appearances include Camille The Merry Widow at Opera Idaho, Carmina Burana with the New Choral Society in New York, Steven Kodaly She Loves Me at Madison Opera, and  Almavia Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Sacramento Philharmonic,