Matthew Rose | Bass

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.

In 2006 he made an acclaimed debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) – for which he received the John Christie Award – and he has since sung the role at La Scala, Covent Garden, the Opéra National de Lyon and at the Houston Grand Opera. He has sung Colline (La bohème) for the Metropolitan Opera; Sparafucile (Rigoletto) and Masetto (Don Giovanni) at Covent Garden; Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress) at the Glyndebourne Festival and for the Gothenburg Opera; Leporello at the Glyndebourne Festival and in Santa Fe; Claggart (Billy Budd) at the English National Opera and Mozart’s Figaro for the Welsh National Opera, the Opéra de Lille and at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich.

His engagements this season include Talbot (Maria Stuarda) for the Metropolitan Opera and Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) at Covent Garden and his future engagements include returns to the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden and the Glyndebourne Festival and his debuts at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

In concert, he has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, the BBC Proms and at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and his engagements include the LSO with Sir Colin Davis Harding and Tilson Thomas; the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Dudamel; the Dresden Staatskapelle with Mackerras; the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis, Belohlávek and Minkowski; the LPO with Nézet-Séguin; L’Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique with Gardiner, the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Dutoit and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Pappano.

His recital appearances include the Brighton, Chester and Cheltenham International Festivals, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and London’s Wigmore Hall.

Already a prolific recording artist his recordings include Walter (Guillaume Tell) and Der Steuermann (Tristan und Isolde) with Pappano; Ratcliffe (Billy Budd) with Harding – Winner of a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording; Bel Canto arias with Natalie Dessay and Evelino Pido and Handel’s ‘Messiah’ with Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge all for EMI; Tippett's ‘A Child of our Time’ and Berlioz’ ‘L’enfance du Christ’ with Sir Colin Davis for LSO Live and Liszt Lieder with Iain Burnside for Signum. His roles on DVD include Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress) and Mr Flint (Billy Budd) from Glyndebourne and Polyphemus (Acis and Galatea) from Covent Garden all on Opus Arte.

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