Jeff Mattsey is renowned worldwide for the signature baritone roles that have defined his prominent career. Of a recent performance, the San Diego Tribune says,  "Baritone Jeff Mattsey was an extraordinary Marcello: extraordinary because he created a character so rich and textured with so little apparent effort - and sang the role with such an outpouring of warm, burnished sound..."          He made his operatic stage debut at 21 as Marcello opposite Luciano Pavarotti ,in the Opera Company of Philadelphia production of La Boheme. He made his  European debut in the same role that year in Modena, Italy,  later appearing as Schaunard in Genoa, Beijing, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, all with the great tenor.  In 1998, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Les Contes d'Hoffmann.           Mr. Mattsey's  noted engagements from the past few seasons include a return to the Metropolitan Opera to perform Mercutio in Romeo et Juliette, Silvano in Un Ballo in Maschera, and Schaunard in La Boheme; Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera and Riccardo in a concert performance of I Puritani with the Vancouver Opera; the title role in Don Giovanni and Count Carl-Magnus in A Little Night Music with Central City Opera; and Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Lyra Ottawa and Opera Tampa.
				Throughout the 2010-2011 season and beyond, he returns to the San Diego Opera to perform two roles: Ping in Turandot and Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale, as well as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at the Vancouver Opera, and the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Madison Opera. He also returns to the MET to perform Marco in Gianni Schicchi, Hermann/Schlemiel in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Paris in Romeo et Juliette, and Joe Castro in La Fanciulla del West, as well as covering  Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. In the summer 2011, he travels with the MET on their tour to Japan performing in Don Carlo
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