A master of his touching, yet bold baritone’ (Berkshire Fine Arts), Matthew Cossack holds graduate degrees and performance based awards from both The Yale School of Music and Mannes College. His role history includes Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Don Alfonso (Cosí Fan Tutte), Peter (Hänsel und Gretel), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), amongst others. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he was a finalist of the Opera Index Competition, a Regional Winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and a winner in the Opera Foundation Scholarship Competition in 2019. He made his European debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2019 as a member of the Stipendiat Ensemble. His roles included Dancairo (Carmen), Fiorello (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Imperial Commissioner (Madama Butterfly) etc. After the pandemic, he returned as a guest artist for Starveling (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) in 2021, and as the baritone soloist in a world premiere of Once To Be Realised, which toured through Berlin, Munich and Athens in 2022. He was a finalist in the International Grand Prix Competition, and awarded the AIMS Graz Scholarship for 2023.