Andrew Shore, is an English operatic baritone. After studying at the Royal Northern College of Music and the London Opera Centre, he sang with Opera For All. In 1981 he appeared with Kent Opera, for whom over the next six years he played buffo roles such as Antonio the gardener in The Marriage of Figaro and Dr Bartolo in The Barber of Seville. For Opera North he has sung a wide range of roles, from comic to serious. For English National Opera, Shore has played a similar range of parts, including Dulcamara in The Elixir of Love, Don Alfonso in Cos� fan tutte, and a role with which he is particularly associated, Verdi's Falstaff. In modern works he has played Doeg in the British premiere of Philip Glass's The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, Tippett's King Priam and ?i?kov in From the House of the Dead. Shore made his Covent Garden debut in 1992, and has appeared in opera houses in continental Europe and the United States. [More at Wikipedia]

September 30th, 1952 in Oldham (Age 72)