Nathaniel Mattingly 

Returning for his third production at Opera on the James, bass-baritone Nathaniel Mattingly is an emerging artist who has performed in leading roles at many other regional companies across the country, including Des Moines Metro Opera as Timur in Turandot and Pistola in Falstaff, Fort Worth Opera as Horatio in Hamlet and Judge Dodsworth in Voir Dire, Performance Santa Fe as The Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance, and Opera in the Heights as Friedrich Bhaer in Little Women.

Nate is very active in the contemporary music field, where he regularly works at American Lyric Theatre as a workshop singer. He already has several world premieres to his name, most prominent of which was Fort Worth Opera’s production of Voir Dire by Matthew Peterson. Nate currently resides in Montclair, NJ and will be singing at Opera Saratoga this coming summer as the Secret Police Agent in Menotti’s The Consul.

Nate made his professional debut with Opera on the James in 2014 as Colline in La bohème and returned in 2015 as Don Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro.