Joel Andrew Weiss

This season tenor Joel Andrew Weiss sings Don Pasquale at the Festival Cultural Mazatlan in Mexico, Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Salt Marsh Opera in Rhode Island, and Madama Butterfly with Eugene Opera in Oregon. Also this season Joel sings a concert of Italian opera favorites with the Queens Symphony and with the Opera Company of North Carolina, Mozart’s Requiem with Da Corneto in Chicago, Keiser’s Markuspassion at Grace Cathedral in NYC and Britten’s St. Nicolas with the Stonington Choral Society in Connecticut.

Future engagements include Salome with Opera Pacific starring Deborah Voigt, a holiday pops concert with the Camden Orchetra in Maine and Salome with Bremen Oper in Germany.

Joel made his international debut in 2005 as Alfredo in La Traviata with The Polish National Opera conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk. Recent seasons include Don Giovanni with the Opera Company of North Carolina, Il Rè Pastore with the New York Chamber Opera, The Pirates of Penzance and Die Fledermaus with Maine Grand Opera, The Mikado , Pagliacci and Susannah with Eugene Opera, as well as The Seagull and Louis Gruenberg’s one-man opera The Creation that he recorded with OperaWorks.

Having grown up on the musical theater stage, Joel appeared regionally in Kismet, The Fantasticks and George M!, as well as the hit off-Broadway musical Many a Good Hanging Prevents a Bad Marriage. Last season Joel premiered and recorded the role of Mikhail Gorbachev in the musical Raisa.

Joel and his wife Kelly are the founders of the Saint Blaise Foundation. Named after the patron saint of throats, the foundation raises money for cancer research. Originally from Virginia, Joel is a graduate of the Catholic University of America, where he studied voice with Todd Duncan.