The 2022-23 Season began with the tenor’s American opera debut as Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia with New Orleans Opera, a debut at the Rheingau Music Festival in Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang Symphony, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the NDR Orchestra, a Mozart gala concert in Perugia.  He also debuted the role of Don Gomez in Weber’s rarely performed operetta, Die Drei Pintos, with the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig.

Prior to that, Matthew sang Ferrando in Così Fan Tutte with Adam Fischer (having created this production with Zubin Mehta) as well as Fenton in Falstaff (with Sir John Eliot Gardiner) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and made his debut at the National Theatre Prague as the Steuermann in a new production of Der Fliegende Holländer, and made several concert appearances in Florence, Dresden and Leipzig with conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst and Alain Altinoglu.   In the summer, he made his American concert debut in Mozart’s Requiem at New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival conducted by Louis Langrée.