Tenor Andy Boggs is a second-year master’s student originally from Odenton, Maryland, studying under the tutelage of Dr. Brian Horne. For IU Opera Theater’s 2025-2026 season, he is looking forward to playing Will Parker (Oklahoma!) and covered Parpignol (La Bohème) this past fall. This summer, he looks forward to playing Anthony Hope (Sweeney Todd) in a collaboration between Opera Memphis and Playhouse on the Square. During IU Opera Theater’s 2024-2025 season, he played Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw) and Alfred (Die Fledermaus). He also played Gonzalve (L’heure espagnole), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), and Dr. Caius (Falstaff) in the IU Jacobs School of Music scenes program. Past roles he has enjoyed are Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), and Ralph Rackstraw (H.M.S. Pinafore). Because of his performances as Ralph Rackstraw (H.M.S. Pinafore), he was honored with being a finalist for Best Performer in a Musical in the BroadwayWorld Washington, DC Awards. As a concert soloist, Boggs has performed as the tenor soloist in works such as Handel’s Messiah, Ives’ The Celestial Country, Purcell’s Welcome to All the Pleasures, and Bach’s Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende, among others. He graduated with a B.M. in Vocal Performance from the University of Maryland (UMD), studying under Gran Wilson.
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