Polenzani, Matthew

(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: Title role of La Clemenza di Tito (Vienna State Opera); Orombello in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda (Naples' Teatro di San Carlo); Rodolfo in La Bohème (Metropolitan Opera); Florestan in Fidelio (Hamburg State Opera); Giasone in Médée (Canadian Opera Company, Metropolitan Opera); Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera, Madrid's Teatro Real); Verdi Requiem (Metropolitan Opera); Handel's Messiah (Chicago Symphony Orchestra); Cavaradossi in Tosca (Metropolitan Opera); title role of Don Carlo (Naples' Teatro di San Carlo); title role of Don Carlos (Metropolitan Opera); title role of Werther (Houston Grand Opera); Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto (Hamburg); title role of Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Hamburg); Hérodiade (Deutsche Oper Berlin); title role of Idomeneo (Aspen Music Festival); Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Metropolitan Opera); Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore (Paris); Alfredo in La Traviata (Canadian Opera Company); Vaudémont in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta (Metropolitan Opera)

Winner of Richard Tucker Award (2004)