Xabier Anduaga has already established himself as one of the most sensational and exciting tenors of his generation. The 2025/26 continues to bring exciting projects, such as a return to the Metropolitan Opera for Rolando Villazón's new production of La Sonnambula, starring as Elvino. He returns to Alfredo La Traviata for Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra de Paris and Opera di Roma, Tonio La Fille du Regiment at Bayerische Staatsoper, Duca Rigoletto at Deutsche Oper Berlin and Nemorino L'elisir d'amore at Opera Las Palmas.
Xabier will also sing recitals at Teatro Real Madrid, Gstaad New Year Music Festival and gala concerts in Prague, Sevilla, Bilbao, Pamplona and with Fundación Sinfonía in Santo Domingo.
Other recent highlights include a sensational debut at the Metropolitan Opera with L'elisir d'amore (Nemorino), Tonio in a new production of Fille du Regiment at Bayerische Staatsoper, other major debuts at Wiener Staatsoper with Don Pasquale (Ernesto) and L'elisir d'amore (Nemorino) and Deutsche Oper Berlin with Anna Bolena (Percy), followed by a return to the Royal Opera House with Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo). He has performed in new productions of Cosi fan tutte (Ferrando) and I Puritani (Arturo) at ABAO Bilbao Opera, La Sonnambula (Elvino) and Rigoletto (Duca) at Teatro Real Madrid and I Puritani (Arturo) at Teatro di San Carlo. He has recently worked with conductors such as Enrique Mazzola, Evelino Pido, Myung-Whun Chung, Josep Pons, Giacomo Sagripanti, Daniel Harding, Antonio Fogliani and Sir Antonio Pappano.
In 2019 he was named First Prize winner of the Operalia Singing Competition, both in the general category and in the Zarzuela category. Other prizes include an International Opera Award 2021 as Best Young Singer, an Ópera XXI Award 2021 as Best Young, an Ópera Actual Award 2021 and RNE’s El Ojo Critico Award.
He made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2020/21 season with the concert From Pain to Hope and returned with Don Pasquale (2022/23), La traviata and La sonnambula (2024/25), and the New Year's Concert (2025/26).