Beethoven

Fidelio Rocco, Don Pizarro

Bernstein

Trouble in Tahiti Sam

Bizet

Carmen Escamillo, Morales

Boito

Mefistofele Mefistofele*

Britten

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nick Bottom

Billy Budd Billy Budd

Gluck

Iphigenie auf Tauris Thoas

Gounod

Faust Méphistophélès

Handel

Messiah Bass Soloist

Mendelssohn

Elijah Elijah

Meyerbeer

Les Huguenots Marcel

Mozart

Don Giovanni Don Giovanni, Leporello, Masetto

Le nozze di Figaro Figaro

Così fan tutte Guglielmo

Die Zauberflöte Sprecher, 2er Geharnischter

Offenbach

Les Contes d’Hoffmann Quatre Méchants

Puccini

La bohème Colline, Schaunard

Tosca Cesare Angelotti

Madama Butterfly Sharpless

Schubert

Winterreise

R. Strauss

Salome Jochanaan*

Verdi

Requiem Bass Soloist

Attila Attila*

Don Carlo Fillipo*

Rigoletto Sparafucile*

La Traviata Barone Dauphol, Marchese d’Obigny

Wagner

Das Rheingold Wotan, Donner

Der fliegende Holländer Holländer

Götterdämmerung Gunther

Tristan und Isolde Steuermann

*denotes role in preparation

Lawson Anderson is irresistible in this splendid new venue's opening show…The name of Lawson Anderson may have been entirely unknown in this country until now, but I hope we’ll be hearing more of it: this native of Atlanta, Georgia inhabits the livewire character of the valet Figaro with irresistible gusto.

-Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph London

Lawson Anderson sounded magnificent; his warm, romantic timbre flowed with regal beauty.

-Opera Magazine (August 2019)

Leaping and vaulting (even tumbling and rolling during a deliciously physical mechanicals’ pageant) his way to the front of an exciting cast is bass-baritone Lawson Anderson. His muscular voice rings with easy power and plenty of character, promising so much for the future.

-The Arts Desk UK

His voice is like granite; perfectly firm, with a richly veined tone.

-New York Classical Review

Den König der Taurer Thoas sang der seit Saisonbeginn dem Ensemble angehörige und inzwischen viel beschäftigte Bassbariton Lawson Anderson. Mit seiner kraftvoll, dunkel gefärbten Stimme und seiner differenzierten Phrasierung bot der noch junge Amerikaner etwas Besonderes.

-Der OpernFreund

Impressive was American bass-baritone Lawson Anderson as Bottom, who has a powerful voice and swaggering stage presence...

-Town&Country Magazine

Lawson Anderson sang a brilliant Figaro, his bass-baritone exuding confidence when called for, and piercing emotions of self-doubt when necessary.

-The Santa Barbara Independent

But it was opening night, and what an opening it was. Lawson Anderson as Figaro was extraordinary. A young star to watch.

-SPEAR’S UK

Best of all is Lawson Anderson’s Bottom, too good-looking, perhaps, for the “hempen homespun” lead, but charismatically bumptious, and vocally a natural “star”.

-Hugh Canning, The Times London

Als Angelotti lernte Man mit Lawson Anderson ein neues Ensemblemitglied des Hauses [Semperoper] kennen. Die stimmt klingt fundiert und kraftvoll und der Sänger konnte sich durchweg profilieren.

-Der Neue Merker 10/2019

Bass-baritone Lawson Anderson performs admirably as Eisenstein's buddy, Dr. Falke, and the two combine richly in an early duet as Falke urges his friend to attend the party.

-The Tampa Bay Times

Lawson Anderson with his excellent bass-baritone and Aoife Miskelly with her beautiful soprano work very well together as Figaro and Susanna. Anderson presents all of the blustery swagger of a man who takes pride in being a cunning trickster, and who revels more perhaps in digging himself out of difficult situations than in ensuring he does not put himself in them to begin with.

-MusicOMH London

...so, too, are many individual performances, with exceptional standout from Lawson Anderson’s grandstanding Bottom...

-The Stage, London