Andy Anderson,
Maestro Andy Anderson,
praised by critics and audiences for his
“sensitive and lyrical” conducting, has been
Artistic Director of Mobile Opera since 2008. On
his debut with Mobile Opera, conducting Lucia di
Lammermoor, the Mobile Press Register commented
on Maestro Anderson’s “impressive debut.” Paul
Horsley, of the Kansas City Star said, “To hold
together like this and make it fun for
performers and listeners is a rare gift.”
A noted interpreter of the works of Giacomo
Puccini, Mr. Anderson was the founder of the
Kansas City Puccini Festival. Over the span of
ten years, the annual festival performed the
complete works of Puccini. In 2005, the Kansas
City Star listed the festival’s performance of
Turandot as one of the “top 15 classical music
and dance events in 2005.”
On his debut
in the summer of 2009 as Music Director of Light
Opera Oklahoma, The Sondheim Review said “Andy
Anderson conducted skillfully, eliciting a lush
sound from his pit orchestra and shaping the
songs with the actors rather than merely
accompanying them.” In the summer of 2010,
Maestro Anderson returned to lead productions of
Patience, The Boy Friend, and Kiss Me, Kate.
Prior to the transition to Mobile in the
summer of 2008, Maestro Anderson was the
Artistic Director of Civic Opera Theater of
Kansas City. Productions with Civic Opera
included Ned Rorem’s Our Town, Menotti’s The
Medium, the world premiere of Everlasting
Universe by John Mueter, The Mikado,
Weill’s
Street Scene, Verdi’s Falstaff, Sondheim’s
Passion, A Gilbert & Sullivan Christmas Carol,
and Puccini’s Edgar. For eight seasons Anderson
was Music Director of the Kansas City Civic
Orchestra. While Music Director, the orchestra
grew from a community orchestra to a major
orchestral “voice” in the Kansas City area. A
focal point of the orchestra’s programs was an
offering of lesser known masterpieces, along
with the standard repertoire. Further focus of
the orchestra, under the baton of Anderson, was
the performance of Gustav Mahler’s works.
Maestro Anderson returned to Kansas City to
conduct the 50th Anniversary Gala concert with
the Kansas City Civic Orchestra featuring
soloist Mark O’Conner.
Other recent
performance highlights have included a debut
with the Mobile Symphony, La Fanciulla del West
, Carmen, La bohème, The Merry Widow and Il
barbiere di Siviglia with Rimrock Opera,
The
Pirates of Penzance and Il barbiere di Siviglia,
with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, My Fair
Lady, A Little Night Music and The Gondoliers
with Light Opera Oklahoma, Der fliegende
Holländer, Love and Lust and Sweeney Todd
with
Mobile Opera, a debut with Amarillo Opera
conducting Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree, the
North American premiere of The Queen Symphony by Tolga Kashif and
Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with
the Kansas City Civic Orchestra, and Handel’s
Messiah with the St. Joseph Symphony. While
serving as assistant conductor with the Lyric
Opera of Kansas City, Anderson conducted The End
of the Affair and Aida.
Other opera
credits include La rondine, Madama Butterfly, Le
nozze di Figaro, Manon Lescaut, Edgar, La
traviata, Tosca, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi,
Ariadne auf Naxos, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Il
tabarro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Die
Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Amahl and the Night
Visitors and La bohème.
Maestro Anderson
also serves as the assistant conductor of the
Colorado MahlerFest in Boulder, Colorado. He
held the same post for three seasons with the
Kansas City Ballet.
Upcoming
performances include Tosca, Candide, and
The
Light in the Piazza with Mobile Opera, Rigoletto
and Turandot with Rimrock Opera.
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