Edgaras
Montvidas Tenor

The Lithuanian tenor Edgaras Montvidas trained in Vilnius and was subsequently accepted into the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He recently made his debut at the Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg as Don José ('Carmen') and at the Bregenz Festival as Pinkerton ('Madam Butterfly'). Further highlights were Stewa ('Jenufa') at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, 'Eugene Onegin' at the Oslo Opera, Alwa ('Lulu') at the Theater an der Wien and Stravinsky's 'Perséphone' with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Further works have taken him to the Hamburg State Opera, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Zurich Opera House, the Semperoper Dresden, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Santa Fe Opera, the Dutch National Opera, the Opéra Comique Paris, the Grand Théâtre de Genêve and the Aix-en-Provence Festival, among others. Concert highlights include Stravinsky's 'Le Rossignol' with the Berlin Philharmonic and Pierre Boulez, the 'Verdi Requiem' on tour with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner or Szymanowski's 'Harnasie' with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle. Edgaras is the recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Art 2022, the Lithuanian Order of Merit from President Dalia Grybauskaite and has twice been awarded the Lithuanian theatre prize 'The Golden Cross of the Stage' (2009 and 2022). Edgaras Montvidas made his debut at Theater Basel in the 23/24 season as Don José in 'Carmen'.