Andrew Haji
Tenor Andrew Haji is one of the most sought-after voices on concert and operatic stages across North America and Europe. Haji’s upcoming season includes debuts with the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Kansas City Symphony, and NDR Hannover. As well, Andrew makes returns to the Houston Symphony, Carnegie Hall with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society. On the opera stage, Andrew debuts the titular role of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito for Pacific Opera Victoria. He continues to frequently collaborate with conductors of note including Manfred Honeck, Bernard Labadie, Jonathan Cohen, Andrew Manze, Rafael Payare, and Alexander Shelley.
During the 23/24 season, he appeared with the Seattle Symphony and Grand Philharmonic Choir (Bach’s Johannes Passion), Victoria Symphony (Handel’s Messiah), Calgary Symphony (Bruckner’s Te Deum), Carnegie Hall (Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium), Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (Verdi’s Requiem) and at the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9), where he last appeared as Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
In 2022/2023 he made international debuts with the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan in his signature role of Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, and the Edinburgh Festival for Handel’s Saul. He appeared as MacDuff in Macbeth for Calgary Opera, as well as Alfredo in La traviata with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony, and as Rodolfo in La bohème for Montreal’s Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes. Other notable appearances include Les Violons du Roy (Bach Cantatas), Chorus Niagara (Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (Haydn’s Creation), the Victoria Symphony (Mozart’s Requiem), La bohème with Edmonton Opera, La traviata with Calgary Opera, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Victoria Symphony and Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Elora Festival.
Andrew starred in various digital and streaming productions through the 2020/2021 season, including Against the Grain Theatre’s acclaimed video of Holst’s Sāvitri, Mozart’s Requiem for the Canadian Opera Company and as Rinuccio in the company’s streamed production of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, returning to the stage for Opéra de Québec’s Il barbiere de Siviglia, reprising the role of Count Almaviva.
With a broad-based repertoire, he has been heard as Pollione in Bellini’s Norma, as Cassio in Otello for the Canadian Opera Company, Alfredo in Die Fledermaus and Rossini’s Stabat Mater. A native-born Ontarian, he has received awards from the Marilyn Horne Song Competition, the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble, and was the winner of the Grand Prix at the 50th International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and the Montreal International Music Competition’s Oratorio Prize.
August 2024
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““Andrew Haji was the production’s Pollione, whose clear lyric tenor easily rose to the heights in those soaring passages in which his music abounds. While there are a number of operatic tenors on the Canadian scene, few have the lyric beauty and carrying power that Haji has. Technically secure, he had no difficulty with the extremely difficult music he has to sing, and he was an excellent vocal match for the two women.” ”
