Biography
Uruguayan tenor Andrés Presno joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in 2019/20 and stayed until the end of the 21/22 season. His roles during this period included singing Abdallo and cover Ismaele (Nabucco), singing Gastone de Letorières and cover Alfredo (La Traviata), singing Roderigo and covering Cassio (Otello), First Man in Armour (Die Zauberflöte), Roderigo (Otello), and First Elder (Susanna), cover Rodolfo (La Boheme), cover Duca (Rigoletto), and cover Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly). Since leaving the programme he has returned to sing the Messenger (Aida) and Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor) as well as covering Rodolfo, Pinkerton and Duca.
Recent and future engagements away from Covent Garden include Malcolm / covering Macduff (Macbeth) and Cavaradossi (Tosca) for The Grange Festival, Des Grieux (Manon) and Don José (Carmen) for the Teatro Municipal, Santiago, Cavaradossi, the Young Gypsy (Aleko), Turiddu (Cavalleria Rusticana) and Adorno (Simon Boccanegra) for Opera North, Desiré (Fedora) and Duca for IF Opera as well as Luigi (Il Tabarro) and Cavaradossi for Welsh National Opera and in 2026/7 he makes his debut with Scottish Opera singing Pinkerton. Further afield he will sing his first Manrico / Il Trovatore at the Manlor Festival in Zaragoza and in 2026-7 he will sing Calaf / Turandot at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro. In 2025 he made his début at the BBC Proms Festival singing arias from Tosca as part of the Traitors’ Prom!
He is also sought after for his work on the concert platform with recent engagements including performances of the Verdi Requiem and Beethoven Symphony No 9.
Presno studied at the Escuela Departamental de Canto Lirico with Rina Baffa, at Escuela Nacional de Arte Lirico del SODRE under Raquel Pierotti and with Yvonne Kenny at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he was a scholar and was supported by the Centro Cultural de Música, Uruguay. His opera appearances include, Parpignol (La bohème), Remendado (Carmen), Cassio (Otello), Giuseppini (El dúo de la Africana), Gastone de Letorières (La traviata), Ricardo (La del Manojo de Rosas) and Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) at SODRE, Dr. Caius (Falstaff) and Edmondo (Manon Lescaut) at Teatro Solis in Montevideo, and chorus and various solo roles in productions for the Punta Classics Festival.
He is a Samling Artist.
