Zachary National Vocal Competition and Top Prize in New York’s Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition. Other recent performances include the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the bass solos in Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor at the Spoleto Festival USA, and Bach’s Cantata 150 with the Philadelphia Orchestra.Ī Louisiana native, Courville is the recipient of top awards in eight national and international vocal competitions, including First Prize in Los Angeles’s Loren L. Trained at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, he garnered critical acclaim for performances there of many important roles including Méphistophélès in Faust, Mustafà in L’Italiana in Algeri, and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor.Īn equally busy concert performer, he has appeared at Carnegie Hall for numerous seasons since his debut there with Opera Orchestra of New York. Highlights of previous seasons include Masetto in Don Giovanni with The Dallas Opera, the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro at Arizona Opera and Karlsruhe’s Badisches Staatstheater in Germany, Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opéra National de Bordeaux, Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Guangzhou Opera House in China, the Marquis in La traviata with the Santa Fe Opera, and a return to the Philadelphia Orchestra as the Jailer in Tosca under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Recent and upcoming seasons bring performances in Italy with Opera di Firenze as Le Grand Prêtre des Mexicains in Fernand Cortez, in France with Opéra National de Bordeaux’s Mozart/DaPonte Trilogy, with the Berkshire Opera Festival as the title role in Don Giovanni, with Houston Grand Opera as Alidoro in La cenerentola and Titurel in Parsifal and in Switzerland as Lord Cecil in Maria Stuarda with Oper Zürich.

Praised by Opera News for his “splendid, lush bass-baritone”, André Courville is gaining momentum as a rising star on stages throughout the world.

High school students, college students and music educators will enjoy hearing about their life’s journey of how their dreams turned into reality.Īndre’ Courville. Our Louisiana guests on this session bring valuable, encouraging, practical and remarkable insight into being a professional musician as a Broadway or Opera musician.

Available now on the LMEA YouTube Channel – Click hereġ2 for 12 + welcomes Andre’ Courville, Kelly Singer, Joey Joseph, Arnold Rawls, and Greg Oden.

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