Costantino also arranges, conducts, composes, acts, directs, teaches, does voice-overs, and is a digital recording engineer, all the while holding down a career as a User Experience Architect for Warner Music Group. Festooned with a liberal wit, a high metabolism, and a Type A streak, the stage is a natural outlet for his ridiculousness. and crafts solo recitals that mix them all up. He is equally adroit across the many operatic roles he has performed (Papageno to Pasquale to Tonio), his musical theater favorites (Lord Chancellor to Lancelot to Jesus), American song (Ives to Rorem to Hoiby), and jazz. He holds a Master's of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Connecticut as well as a Bachelor’s in voice from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.Ī well-known bass-baritone in Connecticut, Michael Costantino’s singing spans a wide range of styles and roles. In addition to performing, Matthew is the assistant director of Liturgical Choir at Sacred Heart University, adjunct professor of voice at Southern Connecticut State University and a private piano teacher. Other performing credits have included Oronte in Alcina, Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Sivigla and Pedrillo in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (HillHouse Opera) as well Ralph Rackstraw in The Sorcerer, Nanki-Poo in The Mikado and Alfred in Die Fledermaus (Trouper’s Light Opera). Regarded as “perhaps the finest tenor voice of his generation” by The Phoenix, Polenzani has starred in more than 300 performances at the Met, including La traviata, Roméo et Juliette, Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Die Zauberflöte, with a repertoire of diverse performances at leading operatic and concert venues worldwide.Matthew Cimino was last seen with the Norwalk Symphony as the smuggler Remendado in their production of Carmen.

This season, the Chicago native returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago to sing in Rigoletto and Les Pêcheurs de Perles before heading to The Metropolitan Opera to perform Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore, which can be seen on PBS when the network’s latest season of Great Performances at the Met that premiered nationwide on April 29. Praised by The New York Times for his “ardor, richness and power,” Polenzani is among the most gifted tenors of his time. West Palm Beach, Florida (May 1) - Palm Beach Opera is honored to announce that internationally-renowned tenor Matthew Polenzani will headline the company’s 2019 Gala on March 2, 2019, at Manalapan’s luxurious Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa.

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