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, Danilo has been a member of the ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden, where he performs roles such as Marcello in La Bohème, Pantalone in Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Mercutio in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, and Eugene Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

Danylo was a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt, where he performed a diverse repertoire, including Graf in Le nozze di Figaro (2023/24), Papageno in Die Zauberflöte (2022/24), and Guglielmo in Calixto Bieito’s award-winning production of Così fan tutte. He also portrayed the One-Eyed Brother in Die Frau ohne Schatten and took part in two new productions: Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Antinoos in Dallapiccola’s Ulisse.

In the 2020/21 season, he appeared in Křenek’s Schwergewicht, Fauré’s Pénélope, Don Carlo, and new stagings of Rossini’s La Gazzetta and Salome.

Beyond Frankfurt, Danylo sang Dottore Malatesta in a new production of Don Pasquale (2022) and Misgir in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Schneeflöckchen (2023) at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl. He also 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, where he worked with Eytan Pessen, Neil Shicoff, Hedwig Fassbender, and Michał Goławski. He was also part of the Akademia Operowa at the Polish National Theater in Warsaw (2017, studying with Matthias Rexroth) and L’Académie de l’Opéra National de Paris (2017–2019).

In Paris, he performed in Boesman’s Reigen, The Kurt Weill Story, as Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, the Hunter in Rusalka, and Junius in The Rape of Lucretia.

Danylo has performed extensively at the National Music Academy of Ukraine, the National Operetta Theatre in Kyiv, and Kyiv Opera, with roles including Graf Danilo (Die lustige Witwe), Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Macrobio (La pietra del paragone), Germano (La scala di seta), and Gasparo (Rita).

His concert repertoire includes Mendelssohn’s Elias (Rheingau Festival 2024), Mussorgsky’s Lieder und Tänze des Todes, and Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Kammer Sinfonie Bremen. He has also performed Bach’s Magnificat and cantatas at Donbas Opera, Handel’s Messiah with the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and Choir and at the Johanneskirche in Gießen, Duruflé’s Requiem with the Kyiv Chamber Choir “Sofia”, and Sviridov’s Piesni bezvremenia with the National Music Academy of Ukraine Choir.

A distinguished competition laureate, Danylo won second prize at both the Antonina Campi International Voice Competition in Lublin and the Ada Sari 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.

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