Biography

From August 2025, he will be part of the Ensemble at Staatstheater Hannover.

He is currently singing the role of Lorenzo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Como, Reggio Emilia, Cremona and Pavia. In May 2025, he will perform Don Profondo (Il viaggio a Reims) in Gorizia. 

In November 2024, he sang Albert (Werther) in Bologna. He was also a semi-finalist at the 2024 Neue Stimmen Competition in Germany and the eligible winner of the ASLICO 2024 competition as well as the "Best Italian Singer" prizewinner at the CLIP competition in Portofino 2024. From 2022-2024, he was a member of the Opernstudio at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In 2023, he participated in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival and performed at the Wexford Opera Festival in Ireland. In 2022, he attended the Rossinian Academy of the XLIII Edition of the Rossini Opera Festival playing the role of Don Profondo in Il viaggio a Reims. 

Italian baritone Matteo Guerzè, born in 1997, began singing in the children's choir of the Pavarotti Freni Theater in Modena and graduated from a musical high school. He subsequently began his musical studies at the Boito musical conservatory in Parma, where he perfected his skills under the guidance of Maestro Lelio Capilupi and graduated Magna cum Laude.

He continued his training at the Pavarotti Freni Theater in Modena by participating in the Advanced Training course for opera singers and subsequently at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as a young artist of the Young Artist Project. He took part in numerous masterclasses with artists such as: Michele Pertusi; Luca Salsi; Eva Mei; Bruno De Simone; M. Pais; R. Polastri; F. Micheli; F. Ceresa; R. Barker; M. D'Elia; M. Errico; Gabriella Tucci; N. Alaimo, A. Siragusa; G. Zappa; E. Palacio; V. Spatula.

He won the Magda Olivero International Competition in Milan and the XLIX Edition of the Toti dal Monte International Competition 2021, winning the role of Doctor Malatesta in Don Pasquale by G. Donizetti which he performed in Treviso and Bassano del Grappa. He also won the same role at the Fausto Ricci International Competition in Viterbo, performing it in Viterbo, Orvieto, Rieti, Civitavecchia and Sassari.