This season, tenor Matthew Plenk makes his debuts at the Los Angeles Opera as Steuerman in
Die fligende Holländer and the Opera Theate of St. Louis as Frederick in
The Pirates of Penzanze. A recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2007/2008 season as the Sailor’s Voice in
Tristan und Isolde under the baton of Maestro James Levine, a role he repeated under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. He has since returned to the Met as Arturo in
Lucia di Lammermoor, Janek in
The Makropolous Case, the Song Seller in
Il Tabarro and Marcellus in
Hamlet, and appeared as Arturo in the Met’s 2011 tour of Japan. Other recent opera engagements have included Don Ottavio at the Des Moines Metro Opera, Ferrando at the Atlanta Opera, Don Ottavio in
Don Giovanni at the Boston Lyric Opera and the Des Moines Metro Opera, Nanki-Poo in
The Mikada at the Virginia Opera, and Ferrando, Nanki-Poo, Rodolfo in
La Bohème, Flute in Britten’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Kudrjás in Janácek’s
Kat’a Kabanová with the Yale Opera.
Mr. Plenk made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble, singing the Brahms
Liebeslieder Walzer and duets by Schumann. Other concert engagements have included concert performances of
Salome with the Cleveland Orchestra in Cleveland and in Carnegie Hall, Borsa in a concert performance of
Rigoletto with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Shepherd in
Oedipus Rex with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra (with James Levine) and the Philadelphia Orchestra (with Charles Dutoit), his debut at the Tanglewood Festival as Iopas in Berlioz’
Les Troyens with James Levine conducting, and appearances with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Hartford Symphony, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Los Angeles based Musica Angelica Baroque, Connecticut Chamber Orchestra, University of North Carolina Symphony, and Yale Philharmonia, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner. ...
read full bioThis season, tenor Matthew Plenk makes his debuts at the Los Angeles Opera as Steuerman in
Die fligende Holländer and the Opera Theate of St. Louis as Frederick in
The Pirates of Penzanze. A recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2007/2008 season as the Sailor’s Voice in
Tristan und Isolde under the baton of Maestro James Levine, a role he repeated under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. He has since returned to the Met as Arturo in
Lucia di Lammermoor, Janek in
The Makropolous Case, the Song Seller in
Il Tabarro and Marcellus in
Hamlet, and appeared as Arturo in the Met’s 2011 tour of Japan. Other recent opera engagements have included Don Ottavio at the Des Moines Metro Opera, Ferrando at the Atlanta Opera, Don Ottavio in
Don Giovanni at the Boston Lyric Opera and the Des Moines Metro Opera, Nanki-Poo in
The Mikada at the Virginia Opera, and Ferrando, Nanki-Poo, Rodolfo in
La Bohème, Flute in Britten’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Kudrjás in Janácek’s
Kat’a Kabanová with the Yale Opera.
Mr. Plenk made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble, singing the Brahms
Liebeslieder Walzer and duets by Schumann. Other concert engagements have included concert performances of
Salome with the Cleveland Orchestra in Cleveland and in Carnegie Hall, Borsa in a concert performance of
Rigoletto with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Shepherd in
Oedipus Rex with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra (with James Levine) and the Philadelphia Orchestra (with Charles Dutoit), his debut at the Tanglewood Festival as Iopas in Berlioz’
Les Troyens with James Levine conducting, and appearances with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Hartford Symphony, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Los Angeles based Musica Angelica Baroque, Connecticut Chamber Orchestra, University of North Carolina Symphony, and Yale Philharmonia, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.
In 2005 Mr. Plenk was one of sixteen singers invited to work with Naxos Records and Yale University in a collaborative project to record the complete songs of Charles Ives.
Mr. Plenk is a Samling Scholar, and holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Hartt School of Music and a Master’s degree from Yale University. His many awards include Grand Finalist in the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, First Place winner of the Five Towns Music Competition, and Grand Prize winner at the Music Lovers Competition.
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