This season, tenor Matthew Plenk returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor and makes his debut at the Atlanta Opera as Ferrando in Così fan tutte.

A recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Mr. Plenk 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 also appeared at the Met as the Song Seller in Il Tabbaro and Marcellus in Hamlet. Other past opera engagements have included Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Boston Lyric Opera, and Rodolfo in La Bohème, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Flute in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nanki-poo in The Mikado, and Kudrjás in Janácek’s Kat’a Kabanová with the Yale Opera ... read full bio

This season, tenor Matthew Plenk returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor and makes his debut at the Atlanta Opera as Ferrando in Così fan tutte.

A recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Mr. Plenk 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 also appeared at the Met as the Song Seller in Il Tabbaro and Marcellus in Hamlet. Other past opera engagements have included Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Boston Lyric Opera, and Rodolfo in La Bohème, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Flute in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nanki-poo in The Mikado, 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 his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut at Tanglewood 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, 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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