BIOGRAPHY
Edward Parks
Baritone Edward Parks is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, and made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2009-2010 season as Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He since appeared at the MET as Schaunard in La bohème, Larkens in La fancuilla del West and returned this season for La Bohème, Don Carlo, and Die Zauberflöte. He sang Valentin in Faust at the Atlanta Opera; the Count in Le nozze di Figaro at Central City Opera, Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles at the Michigan Opera Theater, Marcello in La bohème and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at PORT Opera, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Laurent in the Chicago Opera Theater and Long Beach Opera’s co-production of Tobias Picker’s Thérèse Raquin, and Ford in Falstaff and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. Concert credits include a recital with Susan Graham for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Schubert’s Winterreise at both the Schubert Club in St. Paul and in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Prague Proms International Music Festival and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Future seasons will see his debut with Virginia Opera and a return to the Metropolitan Opera.