Lithuanian tenor Edgaras Montvidas was educated in Vilnius at the Lithuanian Music Academy. From 2001-2003 he was a member of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Young Artists Programme, where he sang Alfredo La Traviata; Arminio in Verdi I Masnadieri; Marcellus and Laertes in Thomas Hamlet and Fenton Falstaff. From 2004-2006 he was a member of the ensemble of Frankfurt Opera where his roles included Des Grieux Manon; Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Tamino Die Zauberflöte; Ottavio Don Giovanni; Alfredo La Traviata and Macduff Macbeth.
Current and future plans include Prunier in Puccini La Rondine and Chevalier Belfiore in Rossini Il viaggio a Reims for The Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress for Scottish Opera; Lensky Eugene Onegin for Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi for Cincinnati Opera and Arbace in Mozart Idomeneo and Fisherman in Stravinsky Le Rossignol for Netherlands Opera. He will also sing Le Rossignol and Ravel L’Enfant et les sortilèges with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and NHK in Japan, both conducted by Charles Dutoit.
Other recent opera appearances have included Nemorino L’elisir d’amore for English National Opera and Scottish opera; Duke Rigoletto for Scottish Opera; Ruggero in La Rondine for Leipzig Opera; Alfredo Traviata; Fisherman Le Rossignol and Lensky for Lyon Opera; Tebaldo I Capuleti e I Montecchi for Opera North; Lensky for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Bayerische Staatsoper, Hamburg Opera and Netherlands Opera; Edgardo Lucia di Lammermoor in St Gallen; Fisherman Le Rossignol for the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Tamino Die Zauberflöte for the Opéra National de Bordeaux.
Edgaras is also active on the concert platform, recently singing Fisherman Le Rossignol with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Pierre Boulez and has sung with the BBC Symphony, Scottish Chamber, Russian National and Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestras as well as with the major orchestras in his native Lithuania and nearby Latvia in repertoire including Berlioz Te Deum; Mozart Requiem; César Franck Les Béatitudes; Beethoven Mass in C and Liszt Missa Coronationalis. He has made a number of appearances at the BBC Proms including singing The Voice of the Forge in de Falla La Vida Breve with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; The Shepherd in Stravinsky Oedipus Rex and the Young Lover in Puccini Il Tabarro with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2009, Edgaras was awarded the Theatre Award The Gold Cross of the Stage in Lithuania for his performances as Werther.
From 2001 lives in London, UK.
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