During the 2025-26 season, Edward Nelson makes his HGO debut as Ponchel in Silent Night. He also returns to the Metropolitan Opera for the premiere of Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sings the title role in the world premiere of Benoît Mernier’s Bartelby at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, and sings the title role in Pélleas et Méisande at the Palacio de la Ópera a Coruña. During the 2024-25 season, Nelson debuted at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Eisentstein in Die Fledermaus; debuted in Italy at Teatro Regio Torino as Marquis d’Hérigny in a new production of Manon Lescaut; returned to Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville as Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride; and debuted at Boston Lyric Opera in Anne Bogart’s new production of Carousel as Billy Bigelow. He performed the title role of Philip Glass’s Orphée at Teatro Real Madrid and as Dandini at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Semperoper Dresden in Damiano Michieletto’s production of Cinderella. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Terence Blanchard’s Champion, which won the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. An alumnus of both the Merola Opera Program and the Adler Fellowship at the San Francisco Opera, Nelson has made over 70 appearances on the stage of the War Memorial Opera House. Other recent opera engagements include his return to Washington National Opera as Don Andrès in La Périchole and the Barber in Strauss’s Die schweigsame Frau at Bard Summerscape.