During the 2025-26 season, Matthew DiBattista makes his HGO debut as Tinca in Il tabarro and Gherardo in Gianni Schicchi, both part of Il trittico. During the 2024-25 season, DiBattista made his San Francisco Opera debut as the Doctor in The Handmaid’s Tale; his Carnegie Hall debut as the Teacher in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, recorded on Deutsche Grammophon; and sang King Nebuchadnezzar in The Burning Fiery Furnace for a recording with Enigma Chamber Opera. He performed several seasons with Lyric Opera of Chicago singing Normano in Lucia di Lammermoor, Esquire in Parsifal, Faninal’s Major-Domo in Der Rosenkavalier, and others. Highlights from recent seasons include Triquet in Eugene Onegin, Goro in Madame Butterfly, and Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Santa Fe Opera; Beppe in Pagliacci and Monostatos in The Magic Flute with Palm Beach Opera; the Madwoman in Curlew River with Enigma Chamber Opera; Soloist in Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Bach, Beethoven and Brahms Society; and the Captain in the Grammy-nominated recording of Corigliano’s Lord of Cries with Odyssey Opera. Further performances include the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, Triquet in Eugene Onegin, and Borsa in Rigoletto with Michigan Opera Theatre; Amrou in La Reine de Saba and the Earl of Surrey in Saint-Saëns’ Henry VIII with Odyssey Opera; and the Doctor in Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Don Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro, and Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Boston Lyric Opera.
HGO DEBUT SEASON