Stephen Hegedus, Bass Baritone

Pacific Opera Victoria
Guglielmo in Così fan tutte
April, 2010

Bass-baritone Stephen Hegedus makes his debut with Pacific Opera Victoria as Guglielmo in the April 2010 production of Mozart's Così fan tutte.

Stephen enjoys an active career both in opera and on the concert stage. Engagements in 2009-10 include Der Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte) and Angelotti (Tosca) with l'Opéra de Montréal and Guglielmo with Pacific Opera Victoria. His concert performances include appearances with the André-Turp Musical Society and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

Other operatic credits include Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Nick Shadow (The Rake's Progress), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia), Colline (La bohème), Frank (Die Fledermaus), Sir John Falstaff (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Betto (Gianni Schicchi), Grégorio (Roméo et Juliette), Fiorello (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Il Commissario (Madama Butterfly), Sicario (Macbeth), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), and Don Inigo Gomez (L'Heure Espagnole).

His concert performances include appearances with the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Les Violons du Roy, San Antonio Symphony, Houston Symphony, the Aldeburgh Connection, the Lamèque International Baroque Festival, La Sinfonia de Lanaudière, the Aldeburgh Festival, and the International Bach Festival in Toronto.

Stephen Hegedus has received numerous awards and grants. He recently appeared as a finalist at Placido Domingo's Operalia, The World Opera Competition, in Québec City. In 2008, he was a winner of the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Solo Competition hosted by the Oratorio Society of New York. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2009 at the Society's performance of Bach's Mass in B minor.

Stephen is an alumnus of St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto, and of l'Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal. He holds a Master of Music in Opera from the University of Toronto and has also pursued further studies at the Banff Centre, the Britten-Pears Programme in Aldeburgh, England, and at the Centre for Opera in Sulmona, Italy.

Stephen Hegedus … is a charming actor and, more to the point a singer of enormous promise. He has a warm voice with a distinctive vibrato that adds interesting color and truly amazing low notes.
Opera Canada, 2006

March 2010