Matthew Polenzani

(Evanston, Illinois)

2024–25 Season: Idomeneo, Idomeneo

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail; title role of Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Don José in Carmen

Recent and Upcoming: Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur (Madrid’s Teatro Real); Lt. B. F. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, Metropolitan Opera, Madrid); Rodolfo in La Bohème (Metropolitan Opera); Anatol in Barber’s Vanessa (National Symphony Orchestra); title role of Werther (Vienna State Opera, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Houston Grand Opera); title role of Otello (Stuttgart Opera); title role of La Clemenza di Tito (Vienna); Orombello in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda (Naples' Teatro di San Carlo); Florestan in Fidelio (Hamburg State Opera); Giasone in Médée (Canadian Opera Company, Metropolitan Opera); Cavaradossi in Tosca (Metropolitan Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival); title role of Idomeneo (Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia Festival, Aspen Music Festival); title role of Don Carlo (Naples); Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto (Hamburg, Metropolitan Opera); title role of Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Hamburg, Metropolitan Opera); Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Metropolitan Opera); title role of Don Carlos (Metropolitan Opera); Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore (Paris Opera, Metropolitan Opera); Alfredo in La Traviata (Canadian Opera Company); Vaudémont in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta (Metropolitan Opera); Der Rosenkavalier (Metropolitan Opera); Verdi Requiem (Metropolitan Opera); Mozart Requiem (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Schubert’s Schwanengesang (Alice Tully Hall); Handel's Messiah (Chicago Symphony Orchestra); Hérodiade (Deutsche Oper Berlin); recitals (Hungarian State Opera, Frankfurt Opera)

Winner of Richard Tucker Award (2004)