Matteo Guerzé

Born in 1997 in Modena, Italy, baritone Matteo Guerzé was a member of the Luciano Pavarotti Children's Choir of the Pavarotti-Freni Theatre in his hometown as a child. He is the winner of various singing competitions such as the Concorso Lirico Magda Olivero Milan, the Fausto Ricci International Singing Competition Viterbo and the Toti Dal Monte 2021 in Treviso. In 2017 he took part in a summer academy at the Opern Akademie Berlin e.V. and also trained in concert and opera singing at the Accademia Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence. In 2018 he made his debut as Peter in Humperdinck's "Hänsel und Gretel" at the Teatro Regio in Parma. He subsequently sang roles such as Guglielmo (Mozart "Così fan tutte"), Malatesta (Donizetti "Don Pasquale"), Amonasro (Verdi "Aida") and Ein Perückenmacher (R. Strauss "Ariadne auf Naxos") at festivals and opera houses in Sassari, Florence and Viterbo. At the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in 2022 he appeared on stage as Don Profondo in Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims" under the musical direction of Daniel Carter.
Since the 2022/23 season, Matteo Guerzé has been a member of the Opera Studio of Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he has taken on the roles of The High Priest (Massenet "Hérodiade"), The Imperial Commissar (Puccini "Turandot"), Le Duc (Donizetti "La Fille du régiment"), Abbé von Chazeuil / Maggiordomo (Cilea "Adriana Lecouvreur") and Notary (Donizetti "Don Pasquale") and performs in concerts.