Anando Mukerjee

Anando Mukerjee is a lirico-spinto tenor. His operatic roles include Rodolfo, the Duke of Mantua, Ishmael, Macduff, Pinkerton, Edgardo and Faust. He is also an accomplished recitalist and has a large and varied oratorio repertoire. He received a Tripos in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, where he was an Inlaks scholar, and later received vocal training privately from Kenneth Woollam, Hon.RCM, Professor of Singing (ret’d) and coaching from Richard Nunn, Professor of Keyboard & Vocal Accompaniment (ret’d), both of the Royal College of Music. He furthered his studies with the celebrated Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda, Singer of the Royal Court, Stockholm. He is the recipient of a Charles Wallace Trust Award, (administered by the British Council) which supported his musical studies in England.

In 2006 he made his international debut at the Belgrade National Opera, Serbia, as Rodolfo in La bohème. In 2007 he made his Italian debut at the Teatro dei Rozzi, Siena, as a guest soloist appearing with the Concordia International Ensemble. He toured with New Sussex Opera as Tobias in their production of Jonathan Dove’s Tobias & the Angel; gave a Crush Bar recital at ROH Covent Garden and made his Wigmore Hall debut accompanied by Leslie Howard.

Recent appearances include: recitals, concerts and operatic appearances in the UK, India and Europe; Opera UK’s tour of the Middle East; the Duke in Rigoletto for New Devon Opera, Deita silvane (Respighi) in Cycles at Cadogan Hall for London Lyric Opera and Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore for Somerset Opera.

Future work includes Beppe with Dorset Opera in Pagliacci, Macduff, Macbeth with Whitehorse Opera and Jeptha in London in September 2009


Critics

“An artist…with fine sensibility” – John Steane, Opera Now

“In the Strauss and French songs Mukerjee really came into his own delivering fine performances of each of them…. revealing his French enunciation to be as admirable as his German” – Robert Matthew-Walker, Musical Opinion

Appeared in:  Cycles