MATTHEW KIRCHNER Tenor Matthew Kirchner grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Among
his teachers was Renata Scotto. In three seasons with Opera San Jose (1995-97)
he sang Don José in Carmen, Alfredo in La Traviata, Lensky in
Evgeny Onegin, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Rodolfo in La Bohème,
Canio in Pagliacci, and the title roles in Xerxes and Faust.
A winner in the 1997 Opera Index Competition, he appeared as Calaf in Turandot
with the Minnesota Opera in 2000 and as Don José with the Hawaii Opera
Theater in 2002. Kirchner made his European debut with the Royal Danish Opera
as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, a role he repeated with the Connecticut
Grand Opera.
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