Vale Rideout

Vale Rideout, enjoys a career on the opera and concert stage. He has sung major roles with San Francisco Opera (Alfred in Die Fledermaus), Palm Beach Opera (Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni), Boston Lyric Opera (Quint in The Turn of the Screw), Kentucky Opera (Roméo in Roméo et Juliette), Central City Opera (Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor), Tulsa Opera (Tamino in The Magic Flute), and Nashville Opera (Frank Shallard in Elmer Gantry). He has sung with major symphonies including the New York Philharmonic (Maazel/War Requiem), Los Angeles Philharmonic (War Requiem), Seattle Symphony (Messiah), Jacksonville Symphony (War Requiem), Nashville Symphony (Messiah), Detroit Symphony (Beethoven 9), Washington Chorus (Missa Solemnis), New Orleans Philharmonic (Messiah, Christmas Oratorio), Trinity Church Wall Street (Britten’s Serenade, Stravinsky’s Les Noces) and Toledo Symphony (Verdi Requiem). He can be heard on World Premiere recordings of Elmer Gantry, Rio de sangre (Davis), The Inspector (Musto), and Wuthering Heights (Floyd), as well as recordings of The Ballad of Baby Doe (Central City Opera), Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Detroit Symphony), Carmina Burana(New Jersey Symphony) and his first solo CD of Britten and Finzi songs on the ACIS label.