Matthew Polenzani, Tenor
 BIRTHPLACE Evanston, Illinois THIS SEASON Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Met, Idomeneo at Turin’s Teatro Regio, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the San Francisco Opera, Faust in La Damnation de Faust in Frankfurt, and Alfredo in La Traviata with the Teatro Regio on tour in Japan. PREVIOUS MET APPEARANCES More than 200 performances of 28 roles including Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Alfredo, Roméo, Belmonte, David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Iopas in Les Troyens, Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and Boyar Kruschov in Boris Godunov, (debut 1997). CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Tamino with the Vienna State Opera and Los Angeles Opera, Belmonte and Roméo at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Duke in Rigoletto in Philadelphia, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor in Vienna and at Paris’s Bastille Opera, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore and Don Ottavio in Vienna and Salzburg, Ferrando at Covent Garden, and Achille in Iphigénie en Aulide in Florence. |
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