2023 Grammy-nominated tenor Matthew Arnold has been hailed by Classical Voice North Carolina as “a golden voice, strong, rich, and surprisingly mature for his age.” A finalist in the 2024 Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition and a two-time finalist in the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, Arnold has spent the last 15 years working in the world of professional opera. 

Recent honors include Third Place in the Charlotte Opera Guild Competition, Encouragement Awards at the 2015-2017 Heafner-Williams Competition, an Encouragement Award from Chautauqua Opera, and the Verdi Award from the Orpheus National Vocal Competition. 

Arnold has performed throughout the United States and Europe with companies and institutions including the Castleton Festival, where he appeared as Prince Yamadori in Madama Butterfly under the baton of the late Maestro Lorin Maazel; the AJ Fletcher Opera Institute; Piedmont Opera; Opera Roanoke; North Carolina Opera; Chautauqua Opera; Boston Lyric Opera; Odyssey Opera; and Opera del West. 

Recent role performances include Don José in Carmen; Senator Matthew Fulton in Of Thee I Sing and Let ’Em Eat Cake with Odyssey Opera; Prince Yamadori in Madama Butterfly and the Ring Announcer in Champion with Boston Lyric Opera; Policeman/Reporter in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X with Odyssey Opera; Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos with the Miami Music Festival and the Fletcher Opera Institute; and Siegmund in Die Walküre at the Miami Music Festival Wagner Institute. 

Arnold holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice, with a minor in Sacred Music, from the University of Delaware; a Master of Music degree in Voice from UNC Greensboro; and an Artist Diploma from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts’ Fletcher Opera Institute. 

When not on the opera stage or the organ bench, Arnold is a passionate advocate for promoting, preserving, and performing vintage jazz and dance-band music of the 1920s and 1930s, with a special focus on the music of Rudy Vallée. He leads the 18-piece New England Yankees and performs throughout the greater Boston area in a variety of venues. He resides in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his wife, soprano Holly Cameron, and their five cats: Pixie, Tilly, Rudy, Benny, and Lucy.