Baritone
Matthew Mannion
La traviataBiography
Matthew Mannion is a recent graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music where he received his MMus in Performance, studying with Owen Gilhooly-Miles and Dearbhla Collins. Recently he performed as Victorian 4 in Will Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Opera Collective Ireland), was a finalist in the Glenarm Festival of Voice Competition, and also performed the role of Melisso in Handel’s Alcina with the Saluzzo Opera Academy. He was selected as a guest artist as part of the Rising Stars 2021 concert at University Concert Hall, Limerick. He has sung the roles of Giove in Cavalli’s La Calisto (RIAM 2020) and was a guest artist in the Festival of Voice with Tara Erraught (Drogheda Classical Music). In 2018-19 he created the role of Owen in Tom Lane’s The Stalls at Cork Opera House, sang First Priest in Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Irish National Opera), Surgeon in the Irish premiere of Stephen McNeff’s Banished (RIAM), created the role of Liam in Tom Lane’s BackStage (Cork Midsummer Festival) and sang the title role in the Irish premiere of Judith Weir’s Scipio’s Dream (RIAM). His other roles include Samuel in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance (Lyric Opera Productions), Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte (Flat Pack Music), Marchese in Verdi’s La traviata, Morales in Bizet’s Carmen (Lyric Opera Productions), the Imperial Commissioner in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (Lyric Opera Productions/Bowdon Festival), Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Opera Britain), and Bartolo in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama).
May 2022