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Baritone

Ed Ballard

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Ed studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the Elena Gerhardt Lieder and Marjorie Thomas Song Prizes and was supported by Sybil Tutton Opera Awards and the International Opera Awards Foundation. 

Ed has a particular interest in contemporary opera with recent and forthcoming performances including creating the title role in Luke Styles Macbeth for Glyndebourne Festival Opera and at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Algernon Montcrief in Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest for Nouvel Opéra Fribourg in Switzerland and Theatre l’Equilibre in Paris (currently available on OperaVision), Avenant in Philip Glass’ Die Schöne und Das Biest for Theater Koblenz (cancelled due to Covid-19), cover Priest/Judge of the Dead in Harrison Birtwistle The Mask of Orpheus for English National Opera, Truffaldino in Jonathan Dove’s The Little Green Swallow for British Youth Opera and Ernest Shackleton in Shackleton's Cat by Russell Hepplewhite for English Touring Opera. He has also worked closely with the Jerwood Opera Writing Programme at Snape Maltings, most recently on the development of Joel Rust’s The Conifers, Jesse Jones The Raft and Robert Allan Reid’s Bermondsey, 1983.

His work in the classic operatic canon also includes the title role in the baritone version of Massenet’s Werther for English Touring Opera, Pandolfe in Massenet’s Cendrillon for Theater Freiburg, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream for Opera Zuid in Holland, Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia for Royal Academy Opera, cover Nick Shadow for Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, cover Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro for English Touring Opera and Marcello in La Boheme ​for Vivo d'Arte. As a recitalist, he made his debut at the Wigmore Hall with the acclaimed Academy Song Circle.

On the concert platform, his recent and upcoming performances include Tippett's A Child of Our Time with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Handel Israel in Egypt in the Herrenhausen Palace in Hannover with Capella St Crucis and La Festa Musicale, Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs with the Birmingham Bach Choir, Handel Italian Cantatas with Sounds Baroque and with the London Handel Festival, Messiah in St Paul’s Cathedral with St Paul's Cathedral Choir and in the Royal Albert Hall with Concerts from Scratch, and Bach Cantatas BWV 8, 32, 61, 62, 100, 157 and 201 as part of the Kohn Foundation/Royal Academy of Music Bach Cantata Series.
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Born in London, Ed began singing at the Temple Church and was a choral scholar in Clare College Choir and King’s College Choir in Cambridge, where he read History. He was a featured soloist on the 2009 BBC Television Broadcast of ‘Carols from King’s’.

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Ed Ballard | Baritone Juliane Gallant | Piano

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"Avant de Quitter ces Lieux" from Gounod's Faust

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A Night at the Chinese Opera

Chao Lin

Beauty and the Beast

Ardent

The Rake's Progress

Nick Shadow

Angels

Prior Walter

Doctor Atomic

J Robert Oppenheimer

Werther

Cinderella

Pandolfe

The Rape of Lucretia

Tarquinius

Gianni Schicchi

Keeper of the Madhouse

Marco

The Little Green Swallow

Truffaldino

The Magic Flute

Monostatos

The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon Moncrieff

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Demetrius

The Marriage of Figaro

Il Conte di Almaviva

The Cloak

Stevedore

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