Quade Winter
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Edward Quade Winter (April 8, 1951 – October 8, 2019) was an American composer, musical restorer and translator, specializing in the light operas of Victor Herbert. He began his career as a performer, singing opera for over two decades.
Winter was born in Pendleton, Oregon, one of five children, including four sons of Melvin Winter, a car dealer and former Pendleton mayor, and Margaret Winter, a housewife.[1][2] As a child, Winter was enchanted by the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan and by science. He graduated from Pendleton High School in 1970 and the University of Oregon (1978) with degrees in theater and music.[2][3]
He began a musical theatre career but soon turned to classical music.[4] He graduated from the Merola Opera Program in 1980.[5] While there, he sang with San Francisco Opera.[3] He then began a career as an operatic tenor, performing roles in opera and oratorio, during the next 23 years, in Germany (where he lived in the 1980s), Austria, the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and elsewhere.[6][2] For example, in 1993, Winter sang Calaf in Turandot with New York City Opera.[7] In 1994, he sang Herod in Richard Strauss's Salome with Virginia Opera,[8] a role he repeated in 1999 at Bellas Artes Opera in Mexico City, and in 2000 with Opera de las Americas in the Dominican Republic.[9] He played Aegistheus in Strauss's Elektra with the Canadian Opera Company in 1996,[10] repeating the role with the Hawaii Opera Theatre in 1999.[11] He was proud of his appearances at Carnegie Hall and La Scala in Milan.[3]
