In leading roles that range from Tamino to Tom Rakewell, Ferrando, Fenton and Nemorino, Matthew Swensen's compelling performances have taken him to Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Carnegie Hall, Oper Frankfurt, State Opera of Prague, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Theater Basel, The Rheingau Festival and more.

He was most recently praised by the BBC for his role debut as Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff in Florence as “Everything we could have hoped for; an ardent and generous tenor... simply phenomenal.''

The 2024/25  Season begins in the summer with Wagner’s Der Fliegende Höllander as the Steersman in his debut at the Teatro Regio di Torino and again with Jaap Van Zweden and the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam later in September. He sings several performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Allentown Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic and on tour throughout Italy and Germany. He makes his debut with the Deutscher Symphoniker in Bruckner's Te Deum and again in Bach's B Minor Mass in Munich. He makes his role debut as Nemorino in New Orleans Opera's Elisir D'Amore, and reprises the role of Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia with Lyric Opera Kansas City. In April 2025 he will make his Canadian debut with the Montreal Symphony in a concert performance of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte. 

He opened the 2023/24 season with his role debut in the title part of Stravinsky’s The Rake's Progress, which was his eighth production at Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence. He debuted the role of Don Gomez in Weber's rarely performed operetta, Die Drei Pintos, with the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig. He later returned to his signature roles of Ferrando in Cosi fan Tutte and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at Maggio Musicale.