Tenor Matthew Chelis studied at the University of Michigan, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Juilliard Opera Center and apprenticed with the Santa Fe and Wolf Trap opera festivals. He has sung with the New York City Opera, the Washington Opera, the Dallas Opera, and the Atlanta Opera, in roles including Mozart’s Tamino and Don Ottavio; Rossini’s Count Almaviva; and Baron Lummer in Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo.