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 graduated from Pendleton High School in 1970 and the University of Oregon (1978) with degrees in theater and music.
[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.
[13] From 1997 to 2004, Winter was Composer-in-Residence at the Ohio Light Opera, and oversaw productions of many of his opera translations, including Boccaccio (von Suppé), The Gypsy Baron (Strauss), The Merry Widow (Lehàr) and Die Fledermaus (Strauss).
[14] Similar reconstructions followed: Herbert's The Red Mill (2001)[15] and Sweethearts (2002),[16] and Reginald De Koven's Robin Hood (2004).