Trained at the Paris Opera Academy Member of the Lyric Ensemble of the Paris OperaBorn in Costa Rica, Andres Cascante studied at the Juilliard School, the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco, and the Yale School of Music. In 2017, he was a semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He is a recipient of the Opera Index Competition award and won third place at the Irene Dalis Competition in 2022. He has been an Apprentice Artist at Central City Opera and an Emerging Artist at the Institute of Young Dramatic Voices of Dolora Zajick and the Waiblingen Opernwerkstatt under Thomas Hampson.He joined the Paris Opera Academy in September 2022 for a two-year period. He is also a member of the Aix-en-Provence Festival Singing Academy and the Rossini Academy in Pesaro. Recently, he has performed the roles of Top (The Tender Land) and Marco (Il Tabarro) in Turin, the Sacristan (Tosca) in Limoges and Vichy, Allazim (Zaide) in Avignon, and made his debut this season as Figaro (The Barber of Seville) in Reims. He will be a member of the Lyric Ensemble of the Paris Opera for the 2025–2026 season.At the Paris Opera: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (the Clock, the Cat), 2023; The Exterminating Angel (Pablo – Cook), 2024; Madama Butterfly (Il Principe Yamadori), 2024; The Barber of Seville (Fiorello), 2025.

Andres CascanteBaritone