Xabier Anduaga (Count Almaviva) tenor, studied singing at the Highest School of Music in Spain. In 2016, he attended the Rossini Academy in Pesaro under the supervision of Alberto Zedda. Soon after he made his Rossini Opera Festival debut as Cavalier Belfiore in Il viaggio a Reims. Recent engagements include Lord Arturo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor which marked his company debut at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées under the baton of Roberto Abbado, Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola at the Sibiu International Festival and at the Pamplona Opera, Conte d’Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Ancona Musical Theatre, and Don Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the Bilbao Opera and at the Rossini Theatre in Pesaro.