Danylo Matviienko
baritone
© Barbara Aumüller
Danylo Matviienko left the Opera Studio to join the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in the 2021/22 season, where he stayed until 2023/24. His roles for the company included Count Almaviva in this production of Le nozze di Figaro, which he's stepping in to sing tonight. Recent successes in Frankfurt included Don Polidoro, Albert & Papageno in new productions of L'Italiana in Londra, La Juive and Die Zauberflöte). He sang Mizgir in a new staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Maiden at the Tirol Festival in Erl, where he also sang Malatesta in Donizetti's Don Pasquale. Other roles sung by this young baritone in Frankfurt included Rudolf (Shrecker's The Elusive Sound), the Astrologer in Britten's Burning Fiery Furnace and he sang Frère Léon in Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise at the Stuttgart State Opera . Danylo Matviienko made his debut in Frankfurt singing the Costume Seller in a new production of Masquerade, which was followed by Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Antinoos in Dallapiccola's Ulisse (»Rediscovery of the Year« 2022, International Opera Awards). Born in the Ukraine, he sang Junius (The Rape of Lucretia), in Boesman's Reigen and the Kurt Weill Story, Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus) and a Hunter in Rusalka while a member of the Opéra National de Paris' Opera Studio, and roles including Danilo (The Merry Widow), Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at places including the National Music Academy, National Operetta Theatre and Opera in Kyiv. He joined the Ensemble at the Semperoper in Dresden this season, where his roles include Mercutio (Roméo et Juliette), the title role in Eugene Onegin, Almaviva and roles in The Love for Three Oranges, Die Zauberflöte and La bohème. He studied in Donezk where he also graduated from university in mathematics.