Endangered Productions was excited to have Matthew Avery play the major roles of Ben in 'The Telephone' and the king in Carl Orff's 'Die Kluge' in our 2023 production It's So Last Century.
Bass Baritone Matthew Avery is an alumnus of Pacific Opera having recently completed his second year as a Young Artist and awarded the Pacific Opera Growth Scholarship in 2022.
He has also performed with Cooperative Opera, Operantics and Consortium Ensemble. His operatic experience with Pacific Opera includes Dr Dulcamara (L’Elisir D’Amore), Superintendent Bud (Albert Herring), Don Alfonso – (Cosi Fan Tutte), Rocco (Fidelio), Collatinus (Rape of Lucretia) and The Bonze (Madama Butterfly); Operantics, Frank (Die Fledermaus) and Cooperative Opera Angelotti (Tosca).
Last year Matthew was a finalist in the Sydney Eisteddfod Operatic Aria Scholarship and was awarded the 2MBSFM Young Virtuoso Award for the NSW finals. He was also honoured to receive the Damien Whitely Award for this Eisteddfod.
Matthew was thrilled to place third in the 2022 Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Awards Competition where he also received the Stimme, Leib und Seele Award.
Last year Matthew performed with Opera Australia in Attila and this year, Roberto Devereux and Aida as well as the role of Valens in Handel’s Theodora for Consortium Ensemble. In May he performed Dr Dulcamara in L’Elisir D’Amore with National Opera in Canberra.
In August he performed with Opera Australia in their production of La Gioconda and in December, he will perform in the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Messiah, and the Manly Warringah Choir’s Christmas performance of Beethoven’s 9th.
Matthew has recently returned from a study tour of Europe, working with leading opera coaches in Vienna and Berlin; taking up the Stimme, Leib und Seele program in Salzburg, Austria as well as competing in Nuit Lyriques de Marmande, France.
As well as being a finalist for this year’s Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Awards, where he won the John Wegner Award, he was also a finalist for the Sydney International Song Competition.