Arizona Opera Cast Members & Creatives

American tenor Andrew Morstein, winner of “Best Male Newcomer” at the Österreichischer MusikTheater Preis Awards in Vienna and praised for his “vocal virtuosity” (Olyrix) is a recent graduate of the Junges Ensemble Theater (JET) with the Theater an der Wien. In the 2025/26 Season, Morstein will sing Don Ramiro in Cinerella (La Cenerentola) with Arizona Opera, Alfredo in La Traviata, a role debut, with Pensacola Opera, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Florentine Opera, Master Ford in Salieri’s Falstaff with Chicago Opera Theater, and Almaviva in The Barber of Seville with both Knoxville Opera and Helena Symphony.

In the 2024/25 Season, Andrew Morstein returned to the Wexford Opera Festival for Florindo in Mascagni’s Le maschere, Almaviva in The Barber of Seville at Central City Opera, Avito in L’Amore Dei Tre Rei with Opera Festival of Chicago, Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri with Opera in the Heights and Anchorage Opera and in concert, Mozart’s Requiem with the Boise Philharmonic, and Pensacola Opera for a recital as part of their Opera After Dark series. He also participated in two World Premieres, about the life of Theodor Herzl, entitled State of the Jews, composed by Alex Weiser with a libretto by Ben Kaplan for American Opera Projects, and with The Town Hall, The Tongue and the Lash, an opera about James Baldwin for the 60th anniversary of the Baldwin/Buckley Cambridge debate, composed by Damien Sneed and composer/conductor Karen Chilton, librettist, with direction by Denyce Graves-Montgomery.

Recently, Morstein made his debuts at the Salzburg Festival, singing Don Curzio in The Marriage of Figaro, performed the role of Leonard Lev for the recording and performance of Tobias Picker's Awakenings with Boston Modern Opera Project and Odyssey Opera, Serge in Erlanger’s L’Aube rouge at the Wexford Opera Festival, Almaviva in The Barber of Seville with Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Opera Neo in San Diego, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Pensacola Opera, Pyotr Fyodorovich/7th Man/7th Student in The Nose with Chicago Opera Theater, and Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri with St. Pete Opera. In concert, Morstein sang the tenor solo in Carmina Burana with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Xian Zhang, as well as with the Amarillo Symphony.

While in Vienna, appearances included Almaviva, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Spoletta in Tosca, Camille in Tobias Picker's Thérèse Raquin, Officer 1/Sandy in The Lighthouse, Georg in the 175th anniversary of the original performance of Der Waffenschmied, and finally Klas/Windmüller in Enoch Arden.

Other notable performances include Andronico in Bajazet (Vivaldi), an evening of Russian song at the Wiener Kammeroper, and the Amalekite in Saul (Händel) in a much-celebrated production by Claus Guth, which was filmed for Austrian public television and transmitted by ORF Austria, Telemachus/City Man in Patrick Morganelli’s Hercules vs. Vampires with Nashville Opera, and Ramiro in La Cenerentola with Opera NEO.

While a graduate student at Northwestern University, Morstein performed Peter Quint in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Bénédict in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict, and Alfred in Die Fledermaus. In concert, he performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and the tenor solos in Janaček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared. Before opera became a full-time career, Morstein was part of two critically acclaimed acapella groups “Straight no Chaser” and "Gentleman’s Rule” both of which toured internationally. Morstein resides in Chicago with his wife.