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John Tiranno

tenor

Hailed by The New York Times as “ardent and mellifluous” as well as a “clear-voiced tenor,” John Tiranno’s recent and upcoming engagements include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and the role of Tamino (The Magic Flute) with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Joann Falletta, Handel’s Messiah with the Nashville Symphony, Messiah and Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette with the Santa Fe Symphony, Goro (Madama Butterfly) with Opera Southwest, the role of Man 1 (Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s Frida) with Opera Southwest and El Paso Opera, and performances of Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer and Schumann’s Dichterliebe with ChatterABQ.

Notable past performances include Berlioz’s Requiem (La Jolla Symphony & Chorus), Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Paul Moravec’s The Blizzard Voices (Oratorio Society of New York), Saint-Saëns Requiem (Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra), Mahler’s song cycle Das Lied von der Erde with ChatterABQ, creating the role of The Young Man in Gisle Kverndokk’s opera Upon this handful of earth (New York Opera Society & Sacred Music in a Sacred Space), Bach’s B minor Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, and the U.S. premiere of Juraj Filas’ Oratio Spei—Requiem (Sacred Music in a Sacred Space), his South American debut in Sao Paulo, Brazil, singing Mozart’s Missa in C (Auditorio Ibirapuera), creating the role Trouble in Kverndokk’s Max and Moritz (New York Opera Society), Lord Tolloller in Iolanthe (Nashville Opera), Messiah (Dayton Philharmonic), and recitals at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology in Jedda, Saudi Arabia. In 2018, he formed the Young Tiranno Duo with his wife, violinist and pianist Elizabeth Young.

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