Peter Mattei
baritone
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The Swedish baritone Peter Mattei started the 2021/22 season off with a triumphant portrayal of Amfortas in Parsifal under Philippe Jordan at the Opéra National de Paris, a city he returns to this winter for the Count in Le nozze di Figaro. Other engagements this season include Don Giovanni and the Count at the Semperoper in Dresden and the title role in Wozzeck, a role he sang for the first time at the Met in 2019/20, at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia. He has performed Schubert's Winterreise with the pianist Lars David Nilsson in the Carnegie Hall, a work he thrilled audiences with on a tour of Northern Europe, which he has recorded for BIS Records and parts of which were seen on Swedish television. Peter Mattei has established himself as one of the most sought-after singers of his generation and has appeared with conductors including Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Chailly, James Levine, Antonio Pappano, Zubin Mehta, Herbert Blomstedt, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Jeffrey Tate, Sir Andrew Davis and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Since his international career took off in the 1990s he has appeared regularly at leading opera houses around the world including the Opéra National de Paris, the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala Milan, the Vienna State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Zurich Opera, San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm and Norwegian Opera as well as the Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, Luzern and Tanglewood festivals. Audiences at the Met in New York were lucky enough to hear him as Amfortas, Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Eugene Onegin, Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), the Count (Le nozze di Figaro), Marcello (La Bohème), Jeletski (Pique Dame) and Šiškov (From the House of the Dead). He gave unforgettable performances of the title role in Richard Jones' production of Britten's Billy Budd and as Mozarts Don Giovanni at Oper Frankfurt. Peter Mattei is also much sought-after as a recitalist all over the world. Anyone who has heard in him recital will understand why he was made a Royal Swedish Court Singer. His discography includes DVDs of Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Eugene Onegin and Parsifal and CDs of Mahler 8, Berlioz' Les Troyens (which won 2 Grammy Awards), Fidelio and solo albums including Once in My Life (Naxos), Great Baritone Arias and the aforementioned recording of Schubert's Winterreise. Peter Mattei studied at the Royal Academy of Music and University College of Opera in Stockholm. He made his debut at the Court Theatre in Drottningholm in 1990 and brought house down when he appeared at Royal Swedish Opera for the first time a year later.