This season, tenor Matthew Plenk he makes his debuts at the Kansas City Opera as Ferrando in
Così fan tutte and the Virginia Opera as Nanki-Poo in
The Mikado, and returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Jenik in
The Makropolous Case.
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 since returned to the Met as Arturo in
Lucia di Lammermoor, the Song Seller in
Il Tabarro and Marcellus in
Hamlet, and appeared as Arturo in the Met’s 2011 tour of Japan. Other past opera engagements have included Ferrando at the Atlanta Opera, Don Ottavio in
Don Giovanni at the Boston Lyric 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. ...
read full bioThis season, tenor Matthew Plenk he makes his debuts at the Kansas City Opera as Ferrando in
Così fan tutte and the Virginia Opera as Nanki-Poo in
The Mikado, and returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Jenik in
The Makropolous Case.
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 since returned to the Met as Arturo in
Lucia di Lammermoor, the Song Seller in
Il Tabarro and Marcellus in
Hamlet, and appeared as Arturo in the Met’s 2011 tour of Japan. Other past opera engagements have included Ferrando at the Atlanta Opera, Don Ottavio in
Don Giovanni at the Boston Lyric 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 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, 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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