John Relyea continues to distinguish himself as one of today's finest bass-baritones.
Mr. Relyea has appeared in many of the world’s most celebrated opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera (where he is an alumnus of the Merola Opera Program and a former Adler Fellow), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Vienna State Opera, and the Mariinksy Theater. His roles include the title roles in
Le Nozze di Figaro, Bluebeard’s Castle, Don Quixotte, Attila, and Aleko; Raimondo in
Lucia di Lammermoor, Colline in
La Bohème, Don Alfonso in
Lucrezia Borgia, Don Basilio in
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Alidoro in
La Cenerentola, Giorgio in
I puritani, Banquo in
Macbeth, Garibaldo in
Rodelinda, Méphistophélès in both
Faust and
La Damnation de Faust, the Four Villains in
Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Escamillo in
Carmen, Marke in
Tristan und Isolde, Caspar in
Der Freischutz, Nick Shadow in
The Rake’s Progress, Collatinus in
The Rape of Lucretia, and King René in
Iolante.
Mr. Relyea also remains in high demand throughout the concert world where he appears regularly with orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, \ Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Berlin Philharmonic. He has also appeared at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Blossom, Vail, Lanaudière, Salzburg, Edinburgh, Lucerne and Mostly Mozart festivals, and in the BBC Proms. In recital, he has been presented at Weill Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Wigmore Hall in London, the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, and the University of Chicago Presents series. ...
read full bioJohn Relyea continues to distinguish himself as one of today's finest bass-baritones.
Mr. Relyea has appeared in many of the world’s most celebrated opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera (where he is an alumnus of the Merola Opera Program and a former Adler Fellow), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Vienna State Opera, and the Mariinksy Theater. His roles include the title roles in
Le Nozze di Figaro, Bluebeard’s Castle, Don Quixotte, Attila, and Aleko; Raimondo in
Lucia di Lammermoor, Colline in
La Bohème, Don Alfonso in
Lucrezia Borgia, Don Basilio in
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Alidoro in
La Cenerentola, Giorgio in
I puritani, Banquo in
Macbeth, Garibaldo in
Rodelinda, Méphistophélès in both
Faust and
La Damnation de Faust, the Four Villains in
Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Escamillo in
Carmen, Marke in
Tristan und Isolde, Caspar in
Der Freischutz, Nick Shadow in
The Rake’s Progress, Collatinus in
The Rape of Lucretia, and King René in
Iolante.
Mr. Relyea also remains in high demand throughout the concert world where he appears regularly with orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, \ Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Berlin Philharmonic. He has also appeared at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Blossom, Vail, Lanaudière, Salzburg, Edinburgh, Lucerne and Mostly Mozart festivals, and in the BBC Proms. In recital, he has been presented at Weill Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Wigmore Hall in London, the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, and the University of Chicago Presents series.
The many conductors with whom Mr. Relyea has worked with include Harry Bicket, Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Neville Marriner, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Sir Roger Norrington, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Robert Spano, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Ilan Volkov.
Mr. Relyea’s most recent recording of the Verdi Requiem was released on the LSO Live label in September 2009. Other recordings include
Idomeneo with Sir Charles Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (EMI), Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (EMI), and the Metropolitan Opera’s DVD presentations of
Don Giovanni, I Puritani and
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Deutsche Grammophon), and
Macbeth (Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series).
This season, Mr. Releyea returns to the both the Seattle Opera and the Washington Concert Opera as the title role in
Attila, the Metropolitan Opera as Leporello in
Don Giovanni, and the Bayerische Staatsopera as the Four Villains. He also makes his debut at the Canadian Opera Company as the Four Villains and appears in concert with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Bergen Festspiele
Mr. Relyea is the winner of the 2009 Beverly Sills Award and the 2003 Richard Tucker Award.
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