Matthew Arnold

Tenor, USA

2023 Grammy Nominated Tenor and twice Finalist in the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, Arnold’s awards include Third Place in the Charlotte Opera Guild Competition, the Encouragement Award at the 2015-2017 Heafner-Williams Competition, and The Encouragement Award in 2015 from Chautauqua Opera and the Verdi Award from the Orpheus National Vocal Competition in April 2014. 

Arnold has sung with opera companies including the Castleton Festival, AJ Fletcher Opera Institute, Piedmont Opera, Opera Roanoke, North Carolina Opera, and Chautauqua Opera. Recent role performances include The Ring Announcer Champion (Boston Lyric Opera), Policeman/Reporter in X: The Life and Times of Malcom X, Bacchus Ariadne auf Naxos (Miami Music Festival/Fletcher Opera Institute), Don José Carmen, Siegmund Die Walküre, and Florestan Fidelio. He holds a bachelor’s begree in voice from the University of Delaware, a Master of Music degree in voice from the UNC Greensboro, and the Artist Diploma from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts.  Arnold currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts where he is Organist and Director of Music at Our Lady Star of the Sea, Marblehead.