Matthew Worth, baritone

Recent performances for Matthew Worth include performances of Island Journeys with the New York Festival of Song, his Chicago Opera Theater debut as Claudio in Béatrice et Bénédict, and his first collaboration with Lorin Maazel as Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia, with performances at the conductor's estate in Virginia. As a fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, in the summer of 2007 Mr. Worth sang Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, with James Levine conducting.

Mr. Worth’s 2005-06 season highlights included appearances with the Juilliard Opera Center in the lead role of William Shrike in the world premiere of Lowell Liebermann's Miss Lonelyhearts, and as Demetrius in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, conducted by David Atherton. He performed selections from Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch with pianist Brian Zeger at Zankel Hall, and joined the New York Festival of Song in their concert “100 years of Juilliard Composers in Song.” He was also presented at Weill Recital Hall in master classes with Thomas Quasthoff, and gave performances of Carmina Burana in Alice Tully Hall with the Richmond Choral Society, Arcadian Chorale, and the Monmouth (NJ) Symphony. In the summer of 2006 Matthew Worth returned to Glimmerglass Opera to sing Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia and to create the role of Coachman in the world premiere of Stephen Hartke’s The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif (recorded for the Naxos record label).

Mr. Worth made his Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem under James DePriest, and performed at Alice Tully Hall in the Juilliard Honors Recital with pianist Carol Wong. He sang L’Horloge Comtoise in L’enfant et les sortilèges with Yves Abel and Simeon in L'enfant prodigue, both with JOC. He sang the role of the Ship's Steward in Death in Venice at Glimmerglass in 2005 and returned to perform Dancaïre in Carmen and Danilo in The Merry Widow in scenes from the operas.

Mr. Worth is the recipient of a 2006 Richard F. Gold Grant from the Shoshana Foundation, the 2006 DeRosa Career Grant, a 2006 grant from the Julian Autrey Song Foundation, the 2005 Roy Jesson Prize for Outstanding Alumni from the University of Richmond, an Encouragement Grant in 2005 from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation and was a finalist in the 2005 Liederkranz Foundation Vocal Competition. Mr. Worth has recently appeared with NYFOS in Island Journeys (2007), and in Love at the Crossroads (2007). He also will be appearing in an upcoming televised NYFOS lecture/recital called The Future of American Song.