Award-winning lyric baritone Kenneth Mattice is earning praise for his compelling singing and expressive acting.  He has recently been called ‘outstanding’ by the Chicago Tribune and ‘charismatic and robust-toned’ by the San Francisco Chronicle.  A Wisconsin native and Resident Artist with Opera San José, Mr. Mattice received rave reviews for his recent debuts as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly.  Other recent performances include Escamillo in Carmen at the Ravinia Festival, Schaunard in La Bohème with Baltimore Opera, Malatesta in Don Pasquale with the Newton Symphony (Boston) and the title role in Don Giovanni for the Opera Institute at Boston University.

Mr. Mattice has also performed with Chicago Opera Theater, Chautauqua
Opera, the Pine Mountain Music Festival, Opera Theater North and Opera Quad Cities.  Additional credits include Silvio
(I Pagliacci), Papageno (The Magic Flute),
Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Ford
(Falstaff), Belcore (L'Elisir d'Amore), Count Robinson (The Secret Marriage), Aeneas
(Dido and Aeneas), Frank (Die Fledermaus),
Albert (Werther), Sam (Trouble in Tahiti)
and the title role in Gianni Schicchi.
      Il barbiere di Siviglia           Roméo et JulietteLa Traviata    La Bohème       Don Giovanni
    as Mercutio

"...not only a confident singer with rounded, bell-like projection, but also an exciting actor who kept raising the energy level on stage."




  Richard Scheinin
    San Jose
    Mercury News
as Figaro

"Kenneth Mattice was a charismatic and robust-toned Figaro.  ...Mattice roamed the stage nimbly and rattled through his famous introductory patter song, 'Largo al factotum' with aplomb."

  Joshua Kosman
     San Fransisco
     Chronicle