Biography
The Swedish baritone Peter Mattei has established himself as one of the most sought after singers of his generation. He has worked with world-renowned conductors such as Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Chailly, Antonio Pappano, Zubin Mehta, Herbert Blomstedt, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Gustavo Dudamel, Jeffrey Tate, Sir Andrew Davis and Daniel Harding.
The 2009/2010 season included Shishkov in From the House of the Dead at the Metropolitan Opera as well as at Teatro alla Scala, Don Giovanni at La Scala and Billy Budd at the Frankfurt Opera. In the summer of 2010 Peter Mattei sang Fernando in Fidelio in concert at the Lucerne Festival under the baton of Claudio Abbado. During the 2010/2011 season he returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Marcello in La Bohème and Yeletsky in Pique Dame and made his Wiener Staatsoper debut in the title role of Eugene Onegin. The season 2011/12 included the title role in the season-opening Don Giovanni at Teatro alla Scala as well as Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Don Giovanni (new production) at the Metropolitan Opera.
The last seasons have included the title role of Don Giovanni with the Metropolitan Opera, Staatsoper Berlin (also on tour to Japan) and Opéra National de Paris, the Count in Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the San Francisco Opera, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Metropolitan Opera, the title role of Eugene Onegin with the Tanglewood Festival and the Salzburger Festspiele, Posa in Don Carlo with the Norwegian Opera, Wolfram in Tannhäuser at Teatro alla Scala and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with the Royal Swedish Opera. He also runs his own festival in his native Luleå in northern Sweden with concerts and opera performances of highest international level.
On the concert platform Peter Mattei has appeared in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Sibelius’ Kullervo, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Saint Matthew Passion, St John Passion, Messiah, Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Symphonie, Britten’s War Requiem and others. He sang Chorèbe at concert performances of Berlioz’ Les Troyens with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis — released on CD by LSO Live and winner of two Grammy Awards. His discography includes Mahler’s 8:th Symphony with Concertgebouw Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly (Decca) and Don Giovanni with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Harding (Virgin Classics). His Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Metropolitan Opera reached up to one million people through the Metropolitan Opera HD broadcasts to movie theatres worldwide. On DVD Peter Mattei can be seen in Don Giovanni (Aix-en Provence), Le nozze di Figaro (Opéra National de Paris) and Eugene Onegin (Salzburg).
Peter Mattei studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at the University College of Opera in Stockholm. While still a student he made his debut in 1990 as Nardo in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera at the Drottningholm Court Theatre and made a sensational Royal Swedish Opera debut as Pentheus in Daniel Börtz’ The Bacchae (directed by Ingmar Bergman) in 1991. Peter Mattei won international acclaim for his interpretation of the title role of Don Giovanni in Aix-en-Provence, directed by Peter Brook in 1998.
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