Musical America’s 2020 Vocalist of the Year, renowned Swedish baritone Peter Mattei has in the season of 2024/2025 appeared as Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro at the Bayerische Staatsoper and as Starbuck in Moby-Dick at the Metropolitan Opera. The season also includes his role debut as Jochanaan in Salome, also at the Metropolitan Opera.
The previous season 2023/24 included Don Giovanni at the Opéra National de Paris and Wozzeck at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Peter also appeared at the Royal Swedish Opera as Amfortas in Parsifal.
Peter Mattei’s international breakthrough came with the title role in Peter Brook’s staging of Don Giovanni at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1998 and he has since then had the privilege to work with many of the worlds’ foremost conductors and directors on stages across Europe and in the U.S.
Peter Mattei has been a frequent guest at the Metropolitan Opera, where he has been seen in roles such as Amfortas in Parsifal, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, the title role of Eugen Onegin, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro, Marcello in La Bohème, Yeletsky in Pique Dame, Shishkov in From the House of the Dead and in 2020, he made his much-acclaimed role debut in the title role in Wozzeck. Some of Peter Mattei's other roles include Billy Budd (Oper Frankfurt and the Göteborg Opera) and Don Fernando in Fidelio (Teatro alla Scala).
With one of his favorite roles, Don Giovanni, Peter Mattei has had the pleasure to work with directors such as Peter Brook and Michael Haneke. He has delighted audiences at Opéra National de Paris, the Royal Opera House in London, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Palau de les Arts Valencia, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Swedish Opera and the Norwegian Opera as well as the prestigious festivals of Salzburg, Verbier, Aix-en-Provence, Lucerne and Tanglewood.
He made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2009/10 season with War Requiem.