British tenor Andrew Staples began his musical career as a choir boy at St. Paul’s Cathedral. He later studied at King’s College in Cambridge and won the Peter Pears Scholarship, which enabled to continue his education at the Royal College of Music and at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School. There he had his first onstage experiences, including Ferrando in Così fan tutte and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, among others. In the past season he made his debut at the Royal Opera House singing Jaquino in Fidelio and was immediately asked to return as Narraboth in a production of Salome. Andrew Staples appeared in Philemon und Baucis at the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, and he sang Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Andrew Parrott. In the concert hall he has appeared with Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, Andrew Manze, and Robin Ticciati. He made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in February 2009 in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri.