Lawson Anderson

Born in the USA, Lawson Anderson studied voice with Mignon Dunn and Valentin Peytchinov in New York. He is a prizewinner of numerous international competitions and drew attention in the opera world in 2018 when, as a former business consultant with an MBA from Columbia Business School, he won the top prize at the George London Foundation competition. He is praised for his «powerful, darkly colored voice and his noble phrasing and demeanor» (Cleveland Classical) and is today one of the leading bass-baritones of his generation.

His opera repertoire includes roles such as the title roles in Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro, Wotan (Das Rheingold), Méphistophélès (Faust), Colline (La Bohème), and Nick Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Since the 2019/20 season, Lawson Anderson has been part of the ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden. In 2023, he made his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he performed in Verdi's Messa da Requiem in the choreography and staging by Christian Spuck. Concert appearances take him to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for their annual holiday concerts with Handel's Messiah and Bach's Christmas Oratorio. By invitation, Anderson has also appeared at the Nevill Holt Opera, the Music Academy of the West (under the direction of James Conlon), and at the Berlin Opera Festival with the Cleveland Opera (Don Giovanni), at the Teatro de las Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the National Opera Center (Winterreise), and at Carnegie Hall in New York City.