A native of Detroit, Michigan, bass-baritone Andrew Hallam is committed to connecting with audiences through the multi-faceted possibilities of opera and song.

This season, Andrew will originate the role of Mr. Baron in the workshop of Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo with Cincinnati Opera’s Opera Fusion: New Works. This performance will be held in Cincinnati on behalf of the Metropolitan Opera. Andrew will then appear as Forester in Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with CCM Opera and join the chorus for Cincinnati Opera’s Opera in the Park, La Traviata, and Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio.

During the 2022-23 season, he performed throughout the metro Detroit area with the Motor City Lyric Opera (MCLO) and as a chorister with Detroit Opera. Through MCLO’s Opera on Wheels initiative, Andrew engaged in outreach productions, such as The Billy Goats Gruff, to bring free, educational, and interactive opera to children from diverse backgrounds in Michigan. In addition, he was an Emerging Artist with Opera in the Ozarks, where he performed the roles of Dr. Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore and Grandpa Moss in The Tender Land. 

For the 2021-2022 season, he made his European debut as Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni through the Vienna Summer Music Festival. Then, at the University of Michigan Opera Theatre, Andrew appeared as Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with dialogue in German, Le Premier Ministre in Massenet’s Cendrillon, the Doctor in William Grant Still’s Highway 1, U.S.A., and the Ripley Constable in Adolphus Hailstork’s Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story. 

Andrew has also been a featured soloist on the recordings of An Anthology of African and African Diaspora Songs in 2022 and An Anthology of Songs of Joseph Bologne in 2023. And, having gained international recognition for opera and art song repertoire, he was invited to be a guest speaker and performer for the Voces del Sol ensemble in Lima, Peru, in 2022.

Andrew Hallam received his Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan and is pursuing a Master of Music in Voice Performance at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. There, he was the winner of the Seybold-Russell Award in the CCM 2023 Opera Scholarship Competition.