Matthew Rose
British bass Matthew Rose at the Curtis Institute of Music before becoming a member of the Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
For the Royal Opera his roles have included Polyphemus (Acis and Galatea), Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Colline (La bohème) and Masetto (Don Giovanni).
In 2006 he made an acclaimed debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Bottom for which he received the John Christie Award. Other appearances include Bottom at La Scala, Milan, the Opera National de Lyon and the Houston Grand Opera. He has also sung Leporello (Don Giovanni) in Santa Fe; Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia) at the Teatro Réal in Madrid; Speaker (The Magic Flute) and Colline at the English National Opera and Mozart’s Figaro for the Welsh National Opera and in Lille.
His engagements in this season and beyond include Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress) and Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the Glyndebourne Festival; Mozart’s Figaro at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Haraschta (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Masetto at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
In concert, his recent engagements have included appearances with the LSO with Sir Colin Davis, Daniel Harding and Michael Tilson Thomas; the Dresden Staatskapelle, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra with Mackerras; the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich with Dutoit and the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Belohlávek. He appears regularly at the Edinburgh International Festival and at the BBC Proms.
In recital he has appeared at the Chester and Cheltenham International Festivals and he has performed Schubert’s ‘Schwanengesang’ with Malcolm Martineau at St John’s Smith Square and in Edinburgh.
His recordings include Der Steuermann (Tristan und Isolde) with Pappano; Ratcliffe (Billy Budd) with Harding; Bel Canto arias with Natalie Dessay and Evelino Pido and Handel’s ‘Messiah’ with Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge for EMI; Tippett's ‘A Child of our Time’ and Berlioz’s ‘L’enfance du Christ’ with Sir Colin Davis for LSO Live and Liszt songs with Iain Burnside for Signum.
He is the recipient of the Independent Opera / Wigmore Hall Fellowship.
Photo © Clive Barda
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