tenor
Performance Dates
June 7/8/9, 8:00 PM
ORFF: Carmina Burana
On the international stages of opera, concert, and recital, Canadian John Tessier has gained attention and praise for the beauty and honesty of his voice, for a refined style and artistic versatility, and for his handsome, youthful presence in the lyric tenor repertoire. He regularly works with many of the most notable conductors before the public today including Martin Haselboeck, Bernard Labadie, Nicholas McGegan, John Nelson, and Robert Spano among others.
During the 2006-07 season John Tessier’s operatic roles include Nemorino in a new Jonathan Miller production of L’elisir d’amore at the New York City Opera, Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Edmonton Opera and Austin Lyric Opera, and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with L’Opéra de Montréal. On the concert stage he appears with Nicholas McGegan and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Messiah, with John Nelson and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris for Bach’s St. John Passion, with the Ensemble Matheus in Mozart’s Requiem, and with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for Orff’s Carmina Burana and Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3.
In the past season he performed Il Barbiere di Siviglia for New York City Opera and in a new Leon Major production for Glimmerglass Opera, Dialogues des Carmélites at Vancouver Opera, and Don Giovanni both at Vancouver Opera and at Austin Lyric Opera. His busy concert schedule included a number of prestigious debuts including at Carnegie Hall with Donald Runnicles and the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s in Mozart’s Requiem, with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic in a program of Mozart Masses, with Nicholas McGegan and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in the Mozart Mass in c, and with Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust.
Other symphonic performances of the recent past have included Haydn’s The Creation with Jane Glover and Chicago’s Music of the Baroque and with John Nelson and Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Messiah with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony, Mozart Requiem with Donald Runnicles and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (recorded and available commercially on the Telarc label), and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Nicholas McGegan and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Other engagements have brought him to Les Violons du Roy with Bernard Labadie, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Handel & Haydn Society, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with John Nelson, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with Bobby McFerrin, and Lincoln Center for performances with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Nicholas McGegan.
On the opera stage John Tessier has sung Lakmé for the operas of Calgary and Edmonton, Così fan tutte at Vancouver Opera and in a new production by Tim Albery at Glimmerglass Opera, Don Pasquale with Opera Lyra Ottawa and Arizona Opera, The Merry Widow with L’Opéra de Montréal, La Fille du Régiment at Vancouver Opera, Don Giovanni and Acis and Galatea at New York City Opera, Il Re Pastore at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Die Zauberflöte with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and the Edmonton Opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Il Barbiere di Siviglia with L’Opéra de Québec, Little Women with Minnesota Opera, and Haydn’s Orlando Paladino and Handel’s Imeneo at Glimmerglass Opera. He has offered solo recitals in Edmonton, Calgary, and in San Francisco under the auspices of the Schwabacher Foundation.
Engagements of future seasons include Don Giovanni at Washington National Opera, L’Italiana in Algeri at Vancouver Opera, Il Viaggio a Reims for Oper Frankfurt, Capriccio for his debut at the Opéra National de Paris, and a new production of Der Fliegende Holländer for his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
website: www.johnptessier.com
Updated: 8/31/06
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John Tessier 
