In the 2025/26 season, American tenor Matthew White, whom the New York Times said has an “attractive, healthy voice” and the Houston Chronicle exclaimed “…makes an undeniably attractive romantic lead,” will sing Don José in Carmen with Malmö Opera, the Macau International Music Festival and Cincinnati Opera, as well as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Calgary Opera.
In the 2024/25 season, Matthew White performed the title role in a new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo with the Royal Danish Opera, Prince Vassily in a new production by Simon McBurney of Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, conducted by Essa-Pekka Salonen at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Des Grieux in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut with Opera Festival of Chicago, Rodolfo in La bohème with the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, and sang his first performances as Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca with Cincinnati Opera and the New Mexico Philharmonic.
Recent opera engagements included role and house debuts as Don José with Santa Fe Opera, Oper im Steinbruch, Vancouver Opera, and Arizona Opera; Alfredo in La traviata with Houston Grand Opera; Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opéra de Montréal and Princeton Festival, Duca in Rigoletto with Utah Opera, and Edmonton Opera; Rodolfo in La bohème with Detroit Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, and Opera Naples; Roméo in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Teatr Wielki and Cincinnati Opera; and Lancelot in Chausson’s Le roi Arthus with Bard SummerScape.
With orchestra, Matthew White has premiered and recorded (on Deutsche Grammophon) Aaron Zigman’s Émigré with the New York Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and Hong Kong Philharmonic, as well as Handel’s Messiah with Nashville Symphony, US Naval Academy, and Florida Orchestra. He has also appeared with Houston Symphony, first as the title role in Faust et Hélène, and then as the Shepherd in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. Finally, he appeared in a night of opera favorites with The Dallas Opera, Gulfshore Opera, and Dayton Philharmonic.
A favorite of competitions, Mr. White was awarded the Grand Prize of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, first place in the Deborah Voigt International Vocal Competition, the Grand Prize in the Mario Lanza Vocal Competition, and is the recipient of the Alfonso Cavaliere Award. Matthew lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and daughter
