Matt began his audio career in 2001 at the legendary Magic Shop Recording Studio, learning from some of the best engineers and producers in NYC. A few years later he opened Vacation Island Recording in Williamsburg where he worked with artists including MGMT, Kurt Vile, Hospitality, Black Dice and Gang Gang Dance. Recent music projects include mixing The Breeders All Nerve, mastering and audio restoration for Woody Guthrie - The Tribute Concerts and remastering Blondie's Parallel Lines, Eat To the Beat, Autoamerican, and The Hunter. In 2015, his focus shifted to post production audio for podcasts and television. As a result he and Melissa co-founded Ultraviolet. His work can be heard on shows from WNYC Studios (Note to Self, 2 Dope Queens, Sooo Many White Guys, Trump Inc., Here's the Thing), WQXR (Aria Code), the ACLU (At Liberty), America’s Test Kitchen (Proof, Mystery Recipe, The Walk-In), Radiotopia (ZigZag), Ten Percent Happier (Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris, Twenty Percent Happier with Matthew Hepburn and Childproof with Yasmeen Khan).
Matt Boynton appears in the following:
Love and Other Drugs: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is the most famous love story in the Western canon. It’s a tale so embedded in our culture — one that has seen so many iterations and retellings — it ...
You Don't Own Me: The Myth and Magic of Bizet's Carmen
Wednesday, January 03, 2024
Carmen is perhaps the most famous heroine in all of opera: an icon of sensuality and self-determination — and a full-blown stereotype of Romani culture.
Revisiting Mozart’s Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
When the Voyager spacecraft set off to explore the galaxy, it carried recordings to represent the best of humanity. There was only one aria: the rage-fest from Mozart's The Magic Flute.
Love Takes Flight: Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Butterflies, a cholera outbreak, and a steamship journey through the Amazon evoke the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Márquez in this lush opera by Daniel Catán.
Davis’s X: The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Malcolm X led many lives within his 39 years: as a bereaved but precocious child; as an imprisoned convict; as a firebrand spokesperson for the Nation of Islam and Black nationalism; ...
Revisiting Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice: Don’t Look Back in Ardor
Wednesday, November 01, 2023
When someone you love dies, how far would you be willing to go to bring them back? The mythical Orpheus goes to hell and back, but even that isn’t enough to save his love Eurydice.
Good Things Come to Those Who Weep: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Sometimes, a single tear can launch a lifetime of happiness.
Death, Faith, and Redemption: Heggie’s Dead Man Walking
Wednesday, October 04, 2023
The true story of a man on Death Row and the nun who accompanied him to the execution chamber.
The Truth Behind the Religious Right
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Some believe that the religious right’s roots begin with Roe v. Wade. But there was an earlier court decision about the rights of segregated schools that first mobilized them.
P.S. I Love You: Renée Fleming Sings Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Wednesday, December 01, 2021
For the Season 3 finale, star soprano Renée Fleming explores what it’s like to be in love, vulnerable, and courageous enough to hit “send.”
To Be Or Not To Be: Dean's Hamlet
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
One of the most famous questions in English literature gets answered anew with a modern operatic adaptation.
Potion, Emotion, Devotion: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Wednesday, November 03, 2021
In the vast catalogue of great, doomed love affairs, the story of an Irish Princess, a Cornish Knight, and a potion switcheroo takes you to a whole new realm.
Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Boy of Peculiar Grace
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Sometimes the journey to self-acceptance begins when you find the strength to face your past and leave it the road.
Verdi's Nabucco: By the Rivers of Babylon
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
With text from the Book of Psalms and an unforgettable melody, Giuseppe Verdi proved that there’s no place like home, especially when you can never return.
Once More Into the Breeches: Joyce DiDonato Sings Strauss
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Love and great art have the power to transform you, especially when you’re wearing pants.
Breaking Mad: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
A woman loses her grasp on reality and finds the only freedom available to her in murder and madness.
Crisis in the Kremlin: Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
A tsar comes to power, but quickly realizes he’s powerless.
Only the Good Die Young: Verdi's La Traviata
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
A great woman dies, and lives forever.
Guys and Dolls: Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann
Wednesday, July 07, 2021
What separates humans from machines is our ability to love, to dream, and to believe in an illusion.
Strauss's Elektra: Waltzing With a Vengeance
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Sometimes the most terrifying thing in life -- and in opera -- is to be alone with your thoughts. In her solitary moments, Richard Strauss's Elektra is consumed by one, dark obsession.
