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AIDA - Welsh National Opera
Andrew Gangestad is a chillingly effective Ramfis;
The Times Online
AIDA - Welsh National Opera
“Andrew Gangestad as Ramfis … provided the evening’s best all-around performance.”
London Telegraph
AIDA - Welsh National Opera
Andrew Gangestad invested Ramfis with a disturbing and threatening power and sang with security and weight – a fine performance
Seen and Heard International
LA SONNAMBULA - Michigan Opera Theatre
“Andrew Gangestad’s honeyed resonance, as the Count, all but stole the show….”
Detroit Press
LA SONNAMBULA - Michigan Opera Theatre
“Korean-American bass Andrew Gangestad filled Rodolfo’s notes with rich, unfettered sound.”
Opera News
IL TROVATORE - Toledo Opera
Andrew Gangestad was a Ferrando of marvelous voice, full and vibrant but capable of movement.
Opera News Online
LA BOHEME - Opera Pacific
... and Andrew Gangestad (Colline) were lively comrades, with the latter providing a distinguished account of the song to the old coat.
Opera News Online
LA BOHEME - Opera Pacific
“Andrew Gangestad … supplied a quietly distinguished account of the song to an old coat (‘Vecchia zimarra’).”
Orange County Register
BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 9 - Columbus Symphony
Baritone Andrew Gangestad delivered a strong recitative that helped usher in the proper tone for what followed.
The Columbus Dispatch
TURANDOT - Kentucky Opera
“Andrew Gangestad was an unusually distinctive, majestic-voiced Timur, a blind king in rags who commanded attention.”
The Courier-Journal
TURANDOT - Kentucky Opera
Andrew Gangestad's Timur had an eye-catching dignity and nobility even while perfectly still, his luxurious, grandiose voice bursting with emotion.
Opera News Online
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA _ Lyric Opera of Kansas City
“… Andrew Gangestad (Don Basilio) … demonstrated a glorious bass voice.”
Kansas City Star
LA DAMNATION DE FAUST - Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Gangestad brought his sturdy bass voice to the role of Brander.
The New York Times
LA DAMNATION DE FAUST - Boston Symphony Orchestra
As the inebriated student Brander, Andrew Gangestad offered firm bass tones with jollity and dash.
Opera News Online
DON GIOVANNI - Opera Pacific
As Leporello, Andrew Gangestad matched Tiggs in terms of color, though he had a more crystalline edge to the voice. Except for the differences in their heights (Tiggs being taller), Leporello’s impersonation of the Don was entirely credible.
LA Times
DON GIOVANNI - Opera Pacific
Andrew Gangestad gave a crisply voiced, nicely understated account of Leporello.
Opera News Online
DON CARLO - The Metropolitan Opera
and Andrew Gangestad sang fulsomely as the friar.
Opera News Online
DON CARLO - The Metropolitan Opera
“Andrew Gangestad was a radiant, gleaming friar – exuding the necessary gravity, too.”
The New York Sun
LA BOHEME - Kentucky Opera
...and Andrew Gangestad (Colline), both rock-solid professionals with lovely voices.
Opera News Online
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO - Bellingham Music Festival
“Bass Andrew Gangestad played a fantastic Figaro. … Gangestad seized each opportunity to maximize dramatic and comedic effect. His performance climaxed in the last act when … he sang beautifully a solo aria lamenting, ‘He who trusts a woman is a madman.’ ”
The Bellingham Herald
AIDA - Opera Pacific
Andrew Gangestad provided a darkly stentorian Ramfis
Orange County Register
DER FREISCHÜTZ – Opera Orchestra of New York
"But the young bass, Andrew Gangestad, crowned the opera’s finale as a generous-toned hermit, setting everything right."
Opera News Online
DER FREISCHÜTZ – Opera Orchestra of New York
“…and the bass Andrew Gangestad intoned the Hermit’s deus ex machina pronouncements majestically.”
New York Sun
DON GIOVANNI – Sarasota Opera
“Leporello was played with panache by Andrew Gangestad, a Sarasota Opera veteran. Not only does Gangestad sing well, he’s also an excellent character actor and he makes us savor every moment he’s on stage.”
The Observer (Florida)
DON GIOVANNI – Sarasota Opera
“Andrew Gangestad [as Leporello] was simply amazing as he nimbly negotiated some tricky fast talking and singing.”
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS - Cincinnati Opera
The latter, looking like a tired old warrior in ancient garb, was given a resonant dignity by bass Andrew Gangestad.
Opera Canada
THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS – Cincinnati Opera
“Andrew Gangestad’s sepulchral Death projected imposing dignity.”
Opera News
THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS – Cincinnati Opera
“… strong work from bass Andrew Gangestad…”
The Wall Street Journal
THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS – Cincinnati Opera
“Andrew Gangestad acts with ancient grace and sings the score’s most persuasive material with assured power.”
Cincinnati CityBeat
THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS – Cincinnati Opera
“…bass Andrew Gangestad…sang and acted…vividly.”
The Cincinnati Post
LA GIOCONDA – Opera Orchestra of New York
“…and young Andrew Gangestad made a star turn of the monk’s few lines.”
NY Newsday
Macbeth – Sarasota Opera
“Andrew Gangestad, as Banquo, displays a bass voice of great power and beauty.”
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Macbeth – Sarasota Opera
“Andrew Gangestad as Banquo gave [an] impressive performance.”
Opera Now
Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis – Berkshire Choral Festival
“…and Andrew Gangestad, who revealed one of those gorgeous, even bass voices that arrives on the scene all too rarely.”
The Berkshire Eagle
Il Barbiere di Siviglia – Connecticut Opera
“…Gangestad—whose resonant voice was one of the evening’s pleasures…”
The Hartford Courant
Semiramide – Minnesota Opera
“Andrew Gangestad must be mentioned for his solidly delivered high priest, Oroe.”
Opera
Semiramide – Minnesota Opera
“Andrew Gangestad sang an impressive Oroe, the high priest ....”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Semiramide – Minnesota Opera
“The priest Oroe was sung magnificently by bass Andrew Gangestad…This is an extremely beautiful voice, powerful, wonderfully controlled, and his singing was exceptional and stylish. One hopes to hear him again. Not many voices give this much pleasure.”
Classical Singer
Tamerlano – Spoleto Festival USA
“Andrew Gangestad sang with startling power and resonance…”
The Post and Courier
Tamerlano – Spoleto Festival USA
“…a humorous and richly sonorous performance…”
Charleston City Paper
La Bohème – Syracuse Opera
“The Colline of Andrew Gangestad, whose rich bass voice lent a fine balance to ensembles, was exceptional in his brief farewell to his overcoat in Act 4.”
The Ithaca Journal
La Bohème – New York City Opera
“Andrew Gangestad, new this season, was a pleasing Colline.”
The New York Times
Handel’s Messiah - Charleston Symphony Orchestra
“The imposing bass voice of Andrew Gangestad rolled out with stentorian authority.”
The Post and Courier
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