Matthew White

In the 2026/27 season, American tenor Matthew White, whom the New York Times said has an “attractive, healthy voice” and the Houston Chronicle exclaimed “…makes an undeniably attractive romantic lead,” will make a house debut with Washington National Opera as Lt. B.F.Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, return to Opéra de Montréal for Duca in Rigoletto, Cincinnati Opera as Calaf in Turandot, and the Seattle Symphony as the title role in Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette. In concert, he joins the Oregon Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and the Virginia Symphony for Messiah. In 2025/26, Mr. White performed Don José in Carmen with Malmö Opera, the Macau International Music Festival, Cincinnati Opera and San Diego Opera, Lt. B.F. Pinkerton with Calgary Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Rodolfo in La bohème with Vancouver Opera.

Recent opera engagements included the title role in a new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo with the Royal Danish Opera, Don José with Santa Fe Opera, Oper im Steinbruch, Vancouver Opera and Arizona Opera, Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca with Cincinnati Opera and the New Mexico Philharmonic, Alfredo in La traviata with Houston Grand Opera, Pinkerton with Opéra de Montréal and Princeton Festival, Duca in Rigoletto with Utah Opera and Edmonton Opera, Prince Vassily in a new production Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Rodolfo with Detroit Opera and Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Spoleto Festival USA, and Opera Naples, Des Grieux in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut with Opera Festival of Chicago, Roméo in Gounod’s Roméo et Juiliette with Teatr Wielki and Cincinnati Opera, and Lancelot in Chausson’s Le roi Arthus with Bard SummerScape.

With orchestra, Matthew White has premiered and recorded (on Deutsche Grammophon) Aaron Zigman’s Émigré with the New York Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and Hong Kong Philharmonic, as well as Handel’s Messiah with Nashville Symphony, US Naval Academy, and Florida Orchestra. He has also appeared with Houston Symphony, first as the title role in Faust et Hélène, and then as the Shepherd in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. Finally, he appeared in a night of opera favorites with the Dallas Opera, Gulfshore Opera, and Dayton Philharmonic.

A favorite of competitions, Mr. White was awarded the Grand Prize of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, 1st place in the Deborah Voigt International Vocal
Competition, the Grand Prize in the Mario Lanza Vocal Competition, and is the recipient of the Alfonso Cavaliere Award. Matthew lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and daughter.