Matthew White, Tenor 
James Maverick, Pianist

Matthew White

In the 2025-26 season, American tenor Matthew White, whom the New York Times said has an “attractive, healthy voice” and the Houston Chronicle exclaimed “…makes an undeniably attractive romantic lead,” will sing Don José in Carmen with Malmö Opera, the Macau International Music Festival, and Cincinnati Opera, as well as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Calgary Opera.

In the 2024-25 season, Matthew performed the title role in a new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo with the Royal Danish Opera, Prince Vassily in a new production by Simon McBurney of Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, conducted by Essa-Pekka Salonen at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Des Grieux in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut with Opera Festival of Chicago, Rodolfo in La bohème with the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, and sang his first performances as Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca with Cincinnati Opera and the New Mexico Philharmonic.

Recent opera engagements included role and house debuts as Don José with Santa Fe Opera, Oper im Steinbruch, Vancouver Opera and Arizona Opera, Alfredo in La traviata with Houston Grand Opera, Pinkerton with Opéra de Montréal and Princeton Festival, Duca in Rigoletto with Utah Opera and Edmonton Opera, Rodolfo with Detroit Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, and Opera Naples, Roméo in Gounod’s Roméo et Juiliette with Teatr Wielkl and Cincinnati Opera, Lancelot in Chausson’s Le roi Arthus with Bard SummerScape.

With orchestra, Matthew White has premiered and recorded (on Deutsche Grammophon) Aaron Zigman’s Émigré with the New York Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and Hong Kong Philharmonic, as well as Handel’s Messiah with Nashville Symphony, US Naval Academy, and Florida Orchestra. He has also appeared with Houston Symphony, first as the title role in Faust et Hélène, and then as the Shepherd in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. Finally, he appeared in a night of opera favorites with the Dallas Opera, Gulfshore Opera, and Dayton Philharmonic.

A favorite of competitions, Matthew was awarded the Grand Prize of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, 1st place in the Deborah Voigt International Vocal Competition, the Grand Prize in the Mario Lanza Vocal Competition, and is the recipient of the Alfonso Cavaliere Award. Matthew lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and daughter.

James Maverick

James Maverick is head of music staff at Cincinnati Opera, where he has prepared productions including Salome, Tosca, and Don Giovanni, among others, and has served as recitalist for the company’s Studio Sessions series. As assistant chorus master from 2021 to 2024, he worked on numerous other productions, including Carmen, Aida, and the stage premiere of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio.

At Austin Opera, James served as music staff for productions including Verdi’s Requiem, Kevin Puts’s The Manchurian Candidate, and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. He was chorus master and keyboardist for productions of Les pêcheurs des perles and Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, where he was also a resident artist from 2017 to 2019. He has prepared workshops of new operas for Opera Philadelphia, Austin Opera's LatinX Residency, and Cincinnati’s Opera Fusion: New Works program. This fall, James joins the faculty of his alma mater, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, as lecturer in music in voice and collaborative piano.

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