After joining the Metropolitan Opera Chorus during the 2019-20 season’s sensational production of Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”, School of Music voice alumnus, Edward Washington II, has been re-engaged by the Met to sing in their 2021-22 season productions of Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nüremburg”, “Porgy and Bess”, and “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” a new work by Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons. 

Edward is a former voice student of Craig Maddox.