Grammy Award-winning baritone Edward Parks is making his HGO debut as Marcello in La bohème. Recent engagements include Sharpless in Madame Butterfly at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Jack Torrence in The Shining with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Opera Colorado, The Creature in Frankenstein with Arizona Opera, and Marcello in La bohème with Boston Lyric Opera and Detroit Opera. Over the past few seasons, Parks has joined Andrea Bocelli on tour, performing in venues including New York’s Madison Square Garden. Upcoming engagements include a return to Detroit Opera to sing Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Così fan tutte in a new staging by Yuval Sharon. Highlights from past seasons include Escamillo in Carmen with the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy, a return to Minnesota Opera as Audebert in Silent Night (2018), Valentin in Faust with Lyric Opera of Chicago (2018), Steve Jobs in the world premiere of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs with Santa Fe Opera (2017), Belcore in The Elixir of Love with Opera Oviedo in Spain (2017), and Figaro in The Barber of Seville with the Metropolitan Opera (2010). Parks received a 2019 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs). A National Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Parks trained at the Met’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program and was also awarded third prize in Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. He was named a First Prize winner at the Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition and has received awards from the George London Foundation.