Matthew Buswell

Bass-baritone

Matthew Buswell has recently performed Soldat/Der Kreidekreis (Zemlinski), Tempo, Nettuno and Antinoo/ Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, St. Peter/Der Mond (K.Orff) (Opéra National de Lyon), Sprecher/Die Zauberflote (Verbier Festival), Samuele/Un ballo in maschera (Grange Park Opera), Seneca/ L’incoronazione di Poppea and Lord Rochefort/ Anna Bolena (Longborough Festival Opera), Il sonno/Arianna in Creta and Licaone/Giove in Argo (London Handel Festival), and Fasolt/ Das Rheingold in concert with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Other roles include Death/Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Commendatore/Don Giovanni, Sarastro/Die Zauberflote, Sacristan & Sciarrone/ Tosca, Banco/Macbeth, Monterone/Rigoletto, Cadmus & Somnus/Semele, Luka/The Bear, L’arbre & Fauteuil/L’enfant et les sortilèges and Superintendent Budd/Albert Herring. 

Concert engagements have included bass solos St Matthew Passion (Orchestre National de Lyon), Mozart Requiem (St Martin-in-the-Fields), Christus St Matthew Passion, Beethoven Mass in C, Beethoven Symphony No 9, Brahms Ein deutches Requiem, Fauré Requiem, and Raphael & Adam in Haydn Creation.


Previously for Longborough: Antinoo & Nettuno/Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (2021), Lord Rochefort/Anna Bolena (2019), Seneca/L’incoronazione di Poppea (2018)