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San Luis Obispo Tribune - Sunday April 6th, 2008

Carmen (Georges Bizet)
Review by Marvin Sosna

"There was an agonizingly conflicted Don Jose in Mathew Edwardsen's solid tenor, matched with skillful acting..."

August 2007 - On the Web

L'Elisir D'Amore (Gaetano Donizetti)
Review by Dr. Jim Lundstrom

"Matthew Edwardsen... essaying a singing role that has famously brought all three of The Three Tenors to their knees, sings with grace and ease, accomplishing every highest note as if it were the most natural of expressions. He holds the stage both musically and as an actor..."

www.kdhx.org (St. Louis, MO) July 2007 - On the Web

Gianni Schicchi (Giacomo Puccini)
Review by Gary Scott

"Principals... and romantic leads Matthew [sic] Edwardsen and Shawnette Sulker as Rinuccio and Lauretta, respectively, were equally vibrant."

Review Plays.com (Los Angeles, CA) June 2007 - On the Web

Roméo et Juliette (Charles Gounod)
Review by Carol Kaufman Segal

"Mathew Edwardsen sang the role of Romeo with bravado."

Review Plays.com (Los Angeles, CA) April 2006 - On the Web

The Tree - ( Peter Wing Healey)
Review by Robert Axelrod

"The duets between Edwardsen and Lynn were breathtaking. What voices! Tenor and soprano! Soaring!"

St. Louis Today.com July 30, 2005
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ariadne auf Naxos
By Sarah Bryan Miller 
Post-Dispatch Classical Music Critic

"She [Carla Thelen Hanson as Ariadne] was well-matched by her clarion-voiced Bacchus, Mathew Edwardsen."

"...this is a fine young tenor."

Santa Fe Opera Press Release (Santa Fe, NM) Fall 2004 - On the Web
2004 Apprentice Awards
Joyce Idema, Cindy Layman

The Santa Fe Opera announced today the recipients of its annual rewards for outstanding apprentice singers and technicians. Each will receive a cash award.

"These talented young people provide invaluable service to the Company each season and we are pleased to acknowledge their exceptional work," noted General Director Richard Gaddes in announcing the awards.

...The National Federation of Music Clubs Award: tenor Matthew [sic] Edwardsen, Indianapolis, IN...

The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, CA) December 9, 2003
Opera guild hands out awards
By Jeff Britton

The 20th anniversary of Palm Springs Opera Guild’s annual scholarship vocal competition was celebrated appropriately with a bumper crop of fine talent. The judges at Sunday’s Annenberg Theater event were able to cull the cream of the crop, although as usual, the audience had its own favorites.

...A tie for fourth place eliminated the third-place prize. A $1,000 grant sponsored by Patrick and Baba Macnee and Gerry and Ron Hoefer went to Mathew Edwardsen, 29, of Las Vegas, and Rachael von Hoffman, 26, of Henderson.

The former scored with his sturdy, lithe tenor in a devotional aria from Verdi’s final opera, "Macbeth." He also brought out in one sustained breath the rich romanticism of an aria from Bizet’s "Carmen."

St. Louis Today.com July 11, 2003
St. Louis Dispatch

Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
BY SARAH BRYAN MILLER
Post-Dispatch Classical Music Critic

"Madama Butterfly," with its tragic heroine and evocative score, is one of the most popular operas in the repertoire. On Friday night, Union Avenue Opera Theatre offered up an audience-pleasing production of this tuneful tale of love and death.

... Tenor Mathew Edwardsen has the vocal goods for Lt. Pinkerton: a big voice with true squillo, an Italianate vocal quality, and easy, ringing high notes. ...this is a promising performer.

This is one of the most attractive productions the company has fielded.

The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, CA) December 3, 2002
Opera Guild Rewards Regions Best Voices
By Jeff Britton

The cream of the crop engaged in voice-to-voice combat Sunday at the Annenberg Theater.

The Palm Springs Opera Guild's annual scholarship competition boasted 12 impressive finalists from a field of 66. A bumper crop indeed.

...The only tenor in the lot, Mathew Edwardsen , 28, of Sherman Oaks tackled a plaintive Tchaikovsky aria from "Eugene Onegin," garnering the fourth-place Gerry and Ron Hoefer scholarship of $750. His stalwart handling of the difficult Russian phrasing was admirable...

The Redlands Daily Facts (Redlands, CA) September 22, 2001
Hometown Poo-Bah Stands Out In 'Mikado'
By Nelda M. Stuck

Edwardsen, who is new to Bowl operatic productions, provided an impressive tenor voice - bright, forthright and at ease in all ranges. His brought out the right touch of bewilderment as the son of the ruling Mikado who has fled the court to find his love, Yum-Yum...