Edward Mout is a tenor who has been praised for his entertaining stage presence and his “mellifluously youthful tenor”. In the 2010-2011 season, Edward made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera as Postiglione in La fanciulla del west. In 2011, Edward will perform the Four Servants in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd with the Wolftrap Opera Company and he will return to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Tanzmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos and Simpleton in Boris Godunov. He is also very excited to begin as a fest singer with Staatsoper Hannover for the 2011-2012 season, where he will perform the roles of Heinrich der Schreiber in Tanhäuser, Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Vater Mignon in Die Teufel von Loudon, Gherardo/Tinca in Il Trittico, and Mime in Das Rheingold. Edward is an alumnus of the prestigious Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center. In his first year with the Ryan Opera Center, Edward was seen in the Lyric Opera of Chicago productions of La Boheme and La Traviata and stepped in for Count Almaviva for one performance of Il barbiere di Siviglia as well as performing the role in the student matinee performances of the same production. For the 2008-09 season, he was seen in Manon, performed Shepherd in Tristan und Isolde, and played Beppe in student matinees of I Pagliacci. Edward was engaged as a Resident Artist with the Minnesota Opera from 2005-2007, where he performed Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. He has also been an apprentice artist with various summer opera festivals, including Central City Opera, where he returned as Orpheus for the 2010 production of Orpheus in the Underworld.
In June 2009, Mr. Mout sang the tenor solos in Bach’s B-Minor Mass with the Costa Rica National Symphony under the baton of Mo. John Nelson. He has been tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah for the University of California- San Diego Chamber Singers and, most recently, with the Carter-Westminster United Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He performed the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony IX with the Peoria Symphony, in Gounod’s Sanctus for the Solana Beach Presbyterian Choir, and in Orff’s Carmina burana and Bach Cantata No. 191 for the San Diego Chamber Singers.