RCHS Graduate Returns After Headlining Opera

Andrew Fellows as Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Andrew Fellows, son of John and Doreen Fellows of San Leandro and 2013 graduate of Redwood Christian High School, has just returned from three-and-a-half weeks starring as Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina under New York Metropolitan Opera’s cover Conductor, Maestro Gregory Buchalter. He stated that the “highlight was the wonderful performers and staff with whom I worked and performed.” He is looking forward to a two-month break before the next season begins!

Andrew performs locally with the Festival Opera of Walnut Creek, and, in Opera San Jose, starred for Stanford University for their production as Figaro in their opera, The Marriage of Figaro. Andrew is under contract with Opera San Jose for their 2022-2023 season.

Andrew does all this in addition to teaching voice lessons at the Bay Area Academy of Music in Pleasanton as well as private voice lessons.

Andrew has been studying under resident artist Eugene Brancoveanu of Opera San Jose and Amy Shoremount-Obra, a metropolitan performer for the Metropolitan Opera in New York as his voice teachers, and was invited to the Varna International Music Festival to Myrtle Beach and star as Escamillo.

Andrew studied Music at Chabot College and History at California State University, East Bay. Andrew’s mother, Doreen, is also an RCHS graduate (1977) as is his younger brother, Michael (2018).