Matthew Rose, bass

Bottom in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (HGO debut)

Recent Engagements:

• Sciarrone in Puccini’s Tosca, Wagner in Gounod’s Faust, Collatinus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Steward in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Jonas Fogg in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, Schlemil in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Judge in Philip Glass’s Orphée, Montano in Verdi’s Otello, Tom in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, Zuniga in Bizet’s Carmen, and Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
• Monk in Verdi’s Don Carlos and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro for Welsh National Opera
  

Awards/Accolades/Recordings:

• Mr. Rose sang the role of Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream for his debut at the Glyndebourne Festival, which earned him a John Christie Award

Did You Know?

• Mr. Rose was a member of the Young Artist Program at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
• He appears regularly at the Edinburgh International Festival and recently made his debut at the BBC Proms in Haydn’s Heiligmesse under Noseda
• Mr. Rose studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Pear Young Artist  Programme in Aldeburgh