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Matthew Polenzani Tenor

Matthew Polenzani is praised for the artistic versatility and fresh lyricism that he brings to concert and operatic appearances on leading international stages. Recognized by the Metropolitan Opera with the 2008 Beverly Sills Artist Award, Mr. Polenzani appears at the Met during the 2009-2010 season as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, conducted by Ascher Fisch. The winner of the 2004 Richard Tucker Award also makes his debut in the title role of Idomeneo at Teatro Reggio Torino under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda, and debuts at Wigmore Hall in recital with pianist Julius Drake. The artist appears at San Francisco Opera in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and at Opera Frankfurt in Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust. His concert calendar includes Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

His Metropolitan Opera performances of recent seasons include La Traviata, opposite Renée Fleming, the title role of Roméo et Juliette, opposite Anna Netrebko, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, opposite Diana Damrau. Commitments outside New York included productions of La Traviata at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, also with Ms. Fleming, I Capuleti e I Montecchi at the Paris Opera, again with Ms. Netrebko, L’elisir d’amore at the Vienna State Opera, and debuts at La Scala in La Traviata as well as at the Salzburg Festival in Don Giovanni under the baton of Bertrand de Billy in a new production by Klaus Guth. Past concert appearances include the Berlioz Te Deum with Sir Colin Davis and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, La damnation de Faust with David Zinman and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Orchestre National de France under Jesús López-Cobos, and solo recitals with Julius Drake under the auspices of Lincoln Center and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.

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