Matthew Rose

British bass Matthew Rose studied at Christ Church University, Canterbury and at the Curtis Institute of Music in the United States before becoming a member of the Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

For the Royal Opera his roles have included Polyphemus (Acis and Galatea), Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Colline (La bohème) and Masetto (Don Giovanni).

In 2006 he made an acclaimed debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Bottom for which he received the John Christie Award. Other appearances as Bottom include La Scala, Milan, the Opera National de Lyon and the Houston Grand Opera. He has also sung Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia) at the Teatro Réal in Madrid; Speaker (The Magic Flute) and Colline at the English National Opera and Mozart’s Figaro for the Welsh National Opera and in Lille.

His future engagements include returns to the Glyndebourne Festival, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and to the Houston Grand Opera and his debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

In concert, his recent engagements have included appearances with the LSO with Sir Colin Davis, Daniel Harding and Michael Tilson Thomas; the Dresden Staatskapelle, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra with Mackerras; the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich with Dutoit and the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Belohlávek.

In recital he has appeared at the Chester and Cheltenham International Festivals and he has performed Schubert’s ‘Schwanengesang’ with Malcolm Martineau at St John’s Smith Square and in Edinburgh.

His recordings include Der Steuermann (Tristan und Isolde) with Pappano; Ratcliffe (Billy Budd) with Harding; Bel Canto arias with Natalie Dessay and Evelino Pido and Handel's 'Messiah' with Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge for EMI and Tippett's ‘A Child of our Time’ and Berlioz’s ‘L’enfance du Christ’ with Sir Colin Davis for LSO Live.

He is the recipient of the Independent Opera / Wigmore Hall Fellowship.