Andrew Forbes-Lane – Tenor
Andrew has been the companies main Tenor since 1996

Andrew Forbes-Lane graduated from the University of Manchester with an honours degree in Drama and worked for five years in the theatre as an Administrator and lighting Designer, before entering the Royal Northern College of Music. His professional solo debut was with Kent Opera and has gone on to work with many companies both in the UK and abroad.

Roles have included Don Jose, Pinkerton, Lenski, Cavaradossi, Rudolpho, Alfredo, Ferrando , Nanki Poo, Tamino, Camille, Eisenstein and Tony  in West Side Story . Andrew made his debut with English National Opera in Monteverdi’s Orfeo in 1992. In 1995 he sang  in the acclaimed production of Wozzleck at La Monnaie in Brussells and was Tenor soloist in performances of Stravinsky’s ballet Pulcinella in Paris, Antwerp and Ghent.

Other highlights to date include being the first western opera singer to give recitals in Kathmandu, his debut at the BBC proms in a specially commissioned opera by John Harle called Angel Magick, a tour of the east coast of the USA in Die Fledermaus and a special performance project at the Royal National Theatre.

He continued to make many appearances with English National Opera in their
productions of From The House of the Dead , Falstaff, The Tales of Hoffman,
Madame Buterfly and Salome.

In 1999 he made his debut with Glyndebourne Festival Opera in The Bartered Bride , reprising this role for Glyndebourne Touring Opera and made his debut with Opera North in Katya kabanova.

2001 included working at Glyndebourne again in The Marriage of Figaro , concerts with the Halle (Tosca) and CBSO (Peter Grimes ), Wozzleck on tour in the UK and in Portugal and a small tour in the UK of Five Contemporary Operas for Tete a Tete Opera Company.

In 2002 he sang the role of Phoebus in the opera Esmerelda in Besancon France in celebration of Victor Hugo’s Bicentenary, worked with The Almeida and Eno, toured the USA for recitals and master classes and  made his debut with Welsh National Opera in their controversial Die Fledermaus continuing to work with WNO in 2003 in their productions of Il Tabarro (Luigi) and Pagliacci (Canio)and 2004 Katya Kabanova (Tichon).

This year he has been back with WNO, Glyndebourne and Birmingham Opera and plans for next year include a return to the Glyndebourne Festival for Prokoviev’s  La Duenna.

Andrew performs regularly on the concert platform in oratorio and more general recital work. He is an occasional tutor for the Research Councils Graduate schools and works regularly with students at Kingdown School in Warminster