Peter Mattei and Daniel Heide
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- 18:00 / Cancelled 18:00 / Sold out Sunday, 18:00
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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
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10% – Over 65
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10% – 30 to 65
- Baritone
- Piano
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Peter Mattei
Baritone
Musical America’s 2020 Vocalist of the year, renowned Swedish baritone Peter Mattei has the season of 2024/2025 appeared as Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro at the Bayerische Staatsoper and as Starbuck in Moby-Dick at the Metropolitan Opera. The season also includes his role debut as Jochanaan in Salome, also at the Metropolitan Opera.
The previous season 2023/24 included Don Giovanni at the Opéra National de Paris and Wozzeck at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Peter also appeared at the Royal Swedish Opera as Amfortas in Parsifal.
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 roles of Don Giovanni and Eugen Onegin, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro, Rodrigo in Don Carlo, Marcello in La Bohème, Yeletsky in Pique Dame, Shishkov in From the House of the Dead 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).
With one of his favorite roles, Don Giovanni, Peter Mattei has had the pleasure to work with directors such as Peter Brook and Michael Haneke. He 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.
His discography includes DVDs of Don Giovanni (Aix-en Provence), Le nozze di Figaro (Opéra National de Paris), Eugene Onegin (Salzburg) and Parsifal (Metropolitan) and CDs of Mahler’s 8:th Symphony under the baton of Chailly, Berlioz’ Les Troyens with Sir Colin Davis (winner of two Grammy Awards), Fidelio with Abbado as well solo CDs such as Once in My Life (Naxos), Great Baritone Arias, Schubert’s Winterreise (BIS Records) and most recently the recording of Allan Pettersson’s Complete Songs (BIS Records).
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 H.M. the Swedish King for his outstanding achievements as an artist.
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Daniel Heide
Piano
The pianist Daniel Heide, who comes from Weimar, is one of the most sought-after lied accompanists and chamber musicians of his generation. He studied at the Franz Liszt Hochschule Weimar with Prof. Ludwig Bätzel and received groundbreaking inspiration from Christa Ludwig and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
His extensive concert activity has taken him throughout Europe and to many countries in Asia.
As a lied accompanist and chamber music partner, he is a regular guest at renowned festivals such as the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Hohenems, the Schubertiada Vilabertran (ES), the Eppaner Liedsommer (IT), the BBC Edinburgh International Festival (GB), the Oxford Lieder Festival (GB), the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival. He has given guest performances in the most important European concert halls such as the Philharmonies in Berlin, Cologne and Paris, the concert halls in Berlin, Vienna and Dortmund, the Frankfurt Opera, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Teatro Zarzuela in Madrid, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Børssalen in Copenhagen, the International Arts Center deSingel in Antwerp and the Muziekcentrum De Bijloke in Ghent.
An intensive collaboration connects him with singers such as Andrè Schuen, Christoph Prégardien, Konstantin Krimmel, Julian Prégardien, Simone Kermes, Katharina Konradi, Patrick Grahl, Ingeborg Danz, Britta Schwarz, Johannes Weisser, Roman Trekel, Natalie Perez and Sheva Tehoval.
In addition to his busy concert schedule, his work has been documented on a number of CD releases. Recent releases include "Liebende" with soprano Katharina Konradi (CAvi-Music, 2021), "Die Schöne Müllerin" with Andrè Schuen (Deutsche Grammophon, 2021), "Prémices" with soprano Sheva Tehoval (CAvi-Music, 2021), and "Dichterliebe" with tenor Patrick Grahl (CAvi-Music, 2020).
His first CD with songs by Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf and Frank Martin, which he recorded together with the South Tyrolean baritone Andrè Schuen for the CAvi-Music label, was awarded the ECHO Klassikpreis in the category "Best Young Singer" in 2016. For the following release "Wanderer", also with Andrè Schuen, he received an OPUS Klassikpreis in 2019 (CAvi-Music, 2019).
He is currently recording the complete song oeuvre of Franz Liszt on seven CDs for the CAvi-Music label and is compiling a new catalog of his songs.
Franz Schubert
Peter Mattei is one of the most sought-after baritones of our time and was named Singer of the Year by the Musical America awards in 2020. Together with pianist Daniel Heide, one of the leading chamber musicians of his generation, Mattei will perform Franz Schubert’s passionate Winterreise (Winter Journey), one of the most fascinating song cycles written by the Austrian composer. Centred on the romantic figure of the traveller, who wanders through a winter filled with doubt and memories, it stands as a sublime example of the elegance of Schubert’s Lieder.
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