During the 2025-26 season, Edward Graves makes his HGO debut as Robbins in Porgy and Bess. During the 2024-25 season, Graves performed as the Duke in Rigoletto (Opera San Jose), Alfredo in La traviata (Opera Tampa), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera), Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera in Williamsburg), and Rodolfo in La bohème (Opera Delaware and Opera Baltimore). He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as 1st Armored Man (2024) and returned to cover the roles of 1st Armored Man and 2nd Priest in The Magic Flute (2025). Graves is a graduate of the Merola Program and Adler Fellowship at San Francisco Opera. During his tenure, he performed as Stone/Eunuch in Bright Sheng's Dreams of the Red Chamber; Gastone in La traviata; covered the roles of Alfredo in La traviata and Lensky in Eugene Onegin; sang Rodolfo in SFO's Bohème Out of the Box; covered the title role in Omar; and performed as Ruiz in Il trovatore. He also participated in a workshop of Jake Heggie's opera Intelligence with Houston Grand Opera. In 2023, Graves performed as Anatol in Barber's Vanessa at the Spoleto Festival. Graves was a 2022 San Francisco District winner of the Metropolitan Opera's Laffont Competition. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Towson University and a Performer Diploma and Master of Music in Voice Performance from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.