Grammy award-winning baritone Matthew Worth is a Professor of Voice at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Performing highlights from recent seasons include the title role in the world premiere of JFK with Fort Worth Opera, the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Boston Lyric Opera, the Narrator in the world premiere and recording of Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua, the world premiere of The Manchurian Candidate with Minnesota Opera, and Moby Dick at Washington National Opera. He has performed principal roles at Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opéra de Montréal, Tanglewood Festival, Cincinnati Opera, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, under luminary conductors James Levine, Lorin Maazel, and Sir Andrew Davis. This season he will perform Schubert’s masterpiece Winterreise in San Francisco, San Diego and Richmond, VA as well as premiere a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank addressing climate change to be released on Earth Day, 2023.