Born in Novy Svit, Ukraine, in 1990, baritone Danylo Matviienko completed his Bachelor’s degree at the Donetsk State Music Academy.

Since the 2024/25 season, Danylo has been a member of the ensemble of the Semperoper Dresden. During the 2025/26 season, he performs there the title role in Eugene Onegin, Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, Ping in Turandot, and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. He will also make his debut as Simone in a new production of Eine florentinische Tragödie by Alexander Zemlinsky.

Guest appearances this season include house debuts at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as Marcello in La Bohème, and at the Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento as Gil in Il segreto di Susanna by Wolf-Ferrari. He will conclude the season singing Papageno at the Soirées Lyriques de Sanxay Festival in France.

Prior to this, Danylo was a member of the ensemble of Oper Frankfurt, where he performed a wide and diverse repertoire, including Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro (2023/24), Papageno (2022/24), and Guglielmo in Calixto Bieito’s award-winning production of Così fan tutte.

Danylo also appeared as a guest artist at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, where he sang Dottore Malatesta in a new production of Don Pasquale (2022) and Mizgir in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka) (2023). He further appeared as Brother Léon in a new production of Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise at the Staatsoper Stuttgart (2023).

Danylo was a member of the Opera Studio at Oper Frankfurt, the Akademia Operowa of the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, and L’Académie de l’Opéra National de Paris. He has performed extensively at the National Music Academy of Ukraine, the National Operetta Theatre in Kyiv, and the Kyiv Opera.

Danylo appears regularly in concert. Recent performances include Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Rheingau Festival 2024), Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Kammer Sinfonie Bremen.

A distinguished competition laureate, Danylo won Second Prize at both the Antonina Campi International Voice Competition in Lublin and the Ada Sari International Vocal Competition in Nowy Sącz. He is also a Laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.

Beyond music, Danylo holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Donetsk National University.