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Edmund Hastings

Primary Skill:

Tenor

Nationality:

British

Country:

United Kingdom

Languages (fluent):

English, Irish

Opera

2nd Tenor Chorus
Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck)
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
2024
2nd Tenor Chorus
Les Troyens (Berlioz)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2023
Featured Tenor Soloist and Chorus
Opera Scenes (Purcell)
West Green Opera
2022
1st Tenor Chorus
Semele (Handel)
English Voices, Shanghai
2019
2nd Tenor Chorus
Benvenuto Cellini (Berlioz)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2019
Featured Tenor Soloist and Chorus
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Bodø
2019
1 st soprano - Choir
Semele (Handel)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2019
Monsieur Triquet
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
OperaUpClose
2018
Featured Tenor Soloist and Chorus
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Academy of Ancient Music
2018
1st Tenor Chorus
King Arthur (Purcell)
Academy of Ancient Music
2017
2nd Tenor Chorus
La Damnation du Faust (Berlioz)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2017
1st Tenor Chorus
The Fairy Queen (Purcell)
Academy of Ancient Music
2016
Remandado
Carmen (Bizet)
OperaUpClose
2015
1st Tenor Chorus
Rigoletto (Verdi)
Longborough Opera
2015
2nd Tenor Chorus
Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
Longborough Opera
2015
Vert-Vert cover and Chorus
Vert-Vert (Offenbach)
Garsington Opera
2014
2nd Tenor Chorus
Fidelio (Beethoven)
Garsington Opera
2014
Peter
The Blank Canvas (Spyros Syrmos)
OperaUpClose
2014
Gabriel .
Hagar in the Wilderness (Sally Beamish)
Presteigne Festival, Opera Nova
2013
1st Tenor Chorus
Orfeo (Monteverdi)
Academy of Ancient Music
2013
1st armed Man .
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Ryedale Festival Opera
2013
2nd Tenor
Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2013
Orfeo
Orfeo (Monteverdi)
Hampstead Garden Opera
2012
Harkelin
Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Ullmann)
Grimeborn
2012
1st Tenor Chorus
Pelleas et Melisande (Debussy)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2012
2nd Tenor Chorus
La Périchole (Offenbach)
Garsington Opera
2012
Cinea
Cajo Fabricio (Hasse)
Ensemble Serse
2012
Nik .
La Fanciulla Del West (Puccini)
OperaUpClose
2012
Arioch
Belshazzar (Handel)
Théatre du Capitole, Toulouse
2011
Jupiter
Semele (Handel)
Hampstead Garden Opera
2011
1st Tenor Chorus
Semele (Handel)
English Voices, Beijing
2010
Lysander
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten)
Shadwell Opera
2010
1st Tenor Chorus
Alceste (Gluck)
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
2010
1st Tenor Chorus
Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
2010

Chorus

1 st Tenor Chorus
Music for the Tempest (Linley)
Academy of Ancient Music, Cambridge and London
2025
1 st Tenor Chorus
Brockes Passion (Handel)
English Concert, London
2024
1st Tenor Chorus
Esther (Handel)
London Handel Festival
2024
1 st Tenor Chorus
How to Train your Dragon (John Powell)
London Voices, Lucerne
2024
2nd Tenor Chorus
Requiem (Brahms)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2022
2nd Tenor Semi Chorus
Schiksalslied (Brahms)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2022
2nd Tenor
Missa Solemnis (Beethoven)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2022
2nd Tenor Chorus
L'Enfance du Christ (Berlioz)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2021
2nd Tenor
Requiem (Verdi)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2019
1 st Tenor Chorus
Music for the Royal Fireworks (Handel)
Academy of Ancient Music, Poland
2019
Featured Tenor Soloist and Chorus
Chandos Anthems (Handel)
Academy of Ancient Music
2018
2nd Tenor Chorus
Requiem (Verdi)
Monteverdi Choir, tour
2018
1st Tenor Chorus
Messiah (Handel)
Le Concert d'Astrée
2017

Oratorio/Concerts

Featured Tenor Soloist
Christmas Oratorio (Bach)
Fiori Musicali, Northampton
2024
Featured Tenor Soloist and Chorus
Messiah (Handel)
The Echoing Air, Bruton
2024
Featured Tenor Soloist
Messiah (Handel)
SW Essex Singers, Chingford
2024
Featured Tenor Soloist
B Minor Mass (Bach)
Bath Cantata
2024
Featured Tenor Soloist
Messiah (Handel)
Bombas of Kenya, Nairobi
2024
Featured Tenor Soloist
Petite Messe Solennelle (Rossini)
Fordingbridge
2024
Featured Tenor Soloist
Nelson Mass (Haydn)
Godalming Choral Society
2024
Featured Tenor Soloist and Chorus
Chandos Anthems (Handel)
London Handel Festival
2024
Featured Tenor Soloist
Messiah (Handel)
South Somerset Choral Society
2024
Featured Tenor Soloist
Nelson Mass (Haydn)
Bournemouth Bach Choir
2023
Featured Tenor Soloist
Elijah (Mendelssohn)
Wiltshire Music Centre
2023
Featured Tenor Soloist
The Seasons (Haydn)
Heathfield Choral Society
2023
Featured Tenor Soloist
Requiem (Mozart)
Downside Abbey
2023
Featured Tenor Soloist
Requiem (Verdi)
South Somerset Choral Society
2023
Featured Tenor Soloist
Vespers (Rachmaninov)
London Concert Choir
2023
Featured Tenor Soloist
Alexanders Feast (Handel)
London Handel Festival
2023
Featured Tenor Soloist
Messiah (Handel)
Fiori Musicali, Northampton
2023
Featured Tenor Soloist and Chorus
Messiah (Handel)
The Echoing Air, Bruton
2023
Featured Tenor Soloist
Requiem (Mozart)
South Somerset Choral Society
2022
Featured Tenor Soloist
Magnifiact in D (Bach)
Heathfield Choral Society
2022
Tenor Arias
St John Passion (Bach)
Fiori Musicali, Northampton
2022
Featured Tenor Soloist
Messiah (Handel)
Fiori Musicali, Northampton
2022
Featured Tenor Soloist
Judas Maccabeus (Handel)
Hampstead Parish Church
2022
Featured Tenor Soloist
Coronation Mass (Mozart)
St James' Singers, Warwick
2022
Featured Tenor Soloist
Messiah (Handel)
Fiori Musicali, Northampton
2021
Featured Tenor Soloist
Alexander's Feast (Handel)
South Somerset Choral Society
2021
Featured Tenor Soloist
St John Passion (Bach)
Fiori Musicali, Northampton
2019
Featured Tenor Soloist
Vespers (Monteverdi)
Fiori Musicali, Woburn
2019
Featured Tenor Soloist
Coronation Mass (Mozart)
Royal Free Choral Society
2019
Featured Tenor Soloist
Petite Messe Solonnelle (Rossini)
Royal Free Choral Society
2018
Featured Tenor Soloist
Messiah (Handel)
Fiori Musicali, Northampton
2018
1st Tenor Chorus
Cantatas (Bach)
English Concert, London
2018
Featured Tenor Soloist
The Creation (Haydn)
St James' Singers, Warwick
2017
Featured Tenor Soloist
Messiah (Handel)
Fiori Musicali, Northampton
2017
Featured Tenor Soloist
Mass in C (Beethoven)
South Somerset Choral Society
2017
Featured Tenor Soloist
Requiem (Mozart)
Royal Free Choral Society
2017
Featured Tenor Soloist
Messiah (Handel)
Goa, India
2014
Featured Tenor Soloist and Chorus
Matthew Passion (Bach)
Israel Camerata
2012

Discography

1 st Tenor Chorus
JAC Redford disc (JAC Redford)
London Voices
2023
1 st Tenor Chorus
Requiem (James Brett)
London Voices
2023
1 st Tenor Chorus
Gloria (Sam Smith)
London Voices
2022
1st Tenor Chorus
Brockes Passion (Handel)
Academy of Ancient Music
2019
2nd Tenor Chorus
Various (Various)
Monteverdi Choir
2018
2nd Tenor Chorus
The Seasons (Haydn)
Gabrieli Consort
2018
1st Tenor Chorus
St John Passion (Bach)
Academy of Ancient Music
2014

Covered Covered & Performed Scenes Premiere of New Work Concert COVID-cancelled

Bach Ach mein Sinn

MA, Vocal Studies
Royal Academy of Music
2010–2012
MA Cantab, Music
King's College, Cambridge
2005–2008

Edmund enjoys a wide-ranging career encompassing opera, oratorio, solo and chamber work, both in the UK and internationally. His training began as a treble at Bath Abbey, after which he went on to sing with the choirs of King’s College, Cambridge and New College, Oxford, followed by further study at the Royal Academy of Music.

He has been lucky enough to have created several new roles in opera, including Gabriel in Hagar in the Wilderness by Sally Beamish for the Presteigne Festival with Opera Nova, and Peter in The Blank Canvas by Spyros Syrmos for OperaUpClose. Also for OperaUpClose he has sung the roles of Remendado in Bizet’s Carmen and Nik in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West. Other highlights include Arioch in Handel’s Belshazzar (Theatre du Capitole, Toulouse), Sailor in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Academy of Ancient Music), Harlekin in Ullmann’s Der Kaiser Von Atlantis (Grimeborn Opera Festival), Cinea in Hasse’s Cajo Fabricio for the London Handel Festival, Jupiter in Handel’s Semele and Orfeo in Monteverdi’s opera of the same name For Hampstead Garden Opera, and Lysander in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shadwell Opera).

Appearing several times with Garsington Opera, he was supported by the Alvarez Foundation, understudying the title role in Offenbach’s Vert-Vert. He has sung for the Aix-en-Provence festival chorus, most recently in their double bill of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride. For many years he has sung as a member of the Monteverdi Choir, with notable highlights including Berlioz’s mammoth Les Troyens and Benvenuto Cellini, as well as Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.
In concert, Edmund has performed the majority of the oratorio canon, often in some rather exotic settings. He was the tenor soloist for the first ever performance of Handel’s Messiah in Goa, together with the Symphony Orchestra of India, as well as a massed performance of the same piece in the Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi. Together with Tcheky Karyo he helped to create an anthology of songs and poetry from the first World War, on tour in Picardie and Paris. In Paris also he performed a song recital at the Parisian British Ambassadorial Residence together with Matthew Fletcher. He appeared on tour across Israel with the Israel Camerata, singing the arias in Bach’s St Matthew Passion. He has performed live on BBC R2, R3 and R4 and has appeared on recordings with the Monteverdi Choir, Gabrieli Consort, Academy of Ancient Music and Fiori Musicali.

Although primarily a classical singer, Edmund can also be found on the soundtracks to many major Hollywood blockbusters, from The Avengers: Infinity War to Barbie, as well as the odd appearance with a barbershop quartet. He is a proud Bristolian, and in his spare time he can be found rock climbing in the Avon Gorge.

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