Former member of the Académie de l’Opéra de Paris, Costa Rican baritone Andres Cascante performs the title role in Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini at the Opéra de Reims and on tour during the 2025–2026 season. His upcoming projects also include Dandini in La Cenerentola at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and Silvano in Un Ballo in maschera at the Opéra de Paris.

Recent engagements include Fiorello in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Yamadori in Madama Butterfly on the stage of the Opéra Bastille, Sacristain in Tosca at the Opéras de Limoges and Vichy, Allazim in Zaide at the Opéra d’Avignon, and Docteur Grenvil in La Traviata in concert with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie.

During the 2023–2024 season, he performed Top in The Tender Land by Copland and Marco in Gianni Schicchi at the Teatro Regio di Torino, as well as L’Horloge Comtoise and Le Chat in L’Enfant et les sortilèges, and Pablo in The Exterminating Angel by Thomas Adès at the Opéra de Paris.

In the 2022–2023 season, he took part in a gala with Gustavo Dudamel at the Opéra Garnier and sang Germano in La Scala di Seta by Rossini at the Théâtre de l’Athénée. He was also a member of the Académie de chant of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Accademia Rossini in Pesaro, where he performed the role of Don Profondo in Il Viaggio a Reims by Rossini.

Andres Cascante studied at some of the most prestigious institutions in the United States: the Juilliard School, the Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera, and the Yale School of Music.

While studying at the Juilliard School, he performed both as a singer and instrumentalist, playing baroque guitar in L’Orfeo by Luigi Rossi with Juilliard 415. He continues to study Renaissance lute and baroque guitar in Paris.

He was a national semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions at the age of 22, a laureate of the Opera Index Competition, and won third place at the Irene Dalis Competition in 2022.

Andres has also been an Apprentice Artist at Central City Opera, an Emerging Artist at the Institute of Young Dramatic Voices founded by Dolora Zajick, and a participant in the Waiblingen Opernwerkstatt led by Thomas Hampson.

Andres Cascante has been represented by RSBA since 2023.