Matthew was a was soloist in Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor in 2018 with the Denver Philharmonic and is thrilled to be back! A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Mr. Plenk made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2007-2008 season as the Sailor’s Voice in Tristan und Isolde under the baton of Maestro James Levine, a role he repeated under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. He has since returned to the Met as Arturo, Janek in The Makropolous Case, the Song Seller in Il Tabarro and Marcellus in Hamlet and appeared as Arturo in the Met’s 2011 tour of Japan. Other operatic engagements have included performances with the Los Angeles Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Virginia Opera, Atlanta Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City and the Des Moines Metro Opera.
