At the Royal Swedish Opera, Peter Mattei will sing the title role in Berg's Wozzeck in autumn 2024. In 2025, he will among other things, sing Jochanaan in Salome in a new production at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
During the season of 2023/2024, renowned Swedish baritone Peter Mattei appeared at the Royal Swedish Opera as Amfortas in Parsifal and sang the title roles of Don Giovanni at the Opéra National de Paris and Wozzeck at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Prior to that included Rodrigo in Don Carlo and in the title role in a new production of Don Giovanni, both at the Metropolitan Opera.
Peter Mattei’s international breakthrough came with the title role in Peter Brook’s staging of Don Giovanni at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1998 and he has since then had the privilege to work with many of the worlds’ foremost conductors and directors on stages across Europe and in the U.S. Peter Mattei has been a frequent guest at the Metropolitan Opera, where he has been seen in roles such as Amfortas in Parsifal, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, the title role of Eugen Onegin, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro, Marcello in La bohème, and Yeletsky in Pique Dame, and in 2020, he made his much-acclaimed role debut in the title role in Wozzeck. Some of Peter Mattei's other roles include Billy Budd (Oper Frankfurt and the Göteborg Opera) and Don Fernando in Fidelio (Teatro alla Scala).
Mattei has delighted audiences at the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra National de Paris, the Royal Opera House in London, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Palau de les Arts Valencia, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Swedish Opera and the Norwegian Opera as well as the prestigious festivals of Salzburg, Verbier, Aix-en-Provence, Lucerne and Tanglewood.
Peter Mattei studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at the University College of Opera in Stockholm. 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 is appointed Court Singer and has been awarded the medal Litteris et Artibus by HM the Swedish King for his outstanding achievements as an artist.
