Relyea, John

(New Market, Ontario, Canada)

2027–28 Season: Fafner and Hagen, Ring cycle

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Méphistopélès in Faust; title role of Le Nozze di Figaro; Colline in La Bohème; Zuniga in Carmen; The Commander in Poul Ruders and Paul Bentley's The Handmaid's Tale

Recent and Upcoming: Bluebeard's Castle (Paris Opera, Naples' Teatro di San Carlo, English National Opera, London Philharmonic); Claggart in Billy Budd (Rome Opera, Oslo); Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra (Naples, Madrid's Teatro Real); concerts (New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic); Les Huguenots (Semperoper Dresden); Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos (Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera); Verdi Requiem (Parma's Teatro Regio, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Naples); Die Walküre (Naples); title role of Mefistofele (Rome, Lyon Opera); Sarastro in The Magic Flute (Rome, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, ENO); Padre Guardiano in La Forza del Destino (Barcelona); Wurm in Luisa Miller (Vienna, Salzburg Festival); Mephistofeles in The Damnation of Faust (Orchestra Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia, Radio Frankfurt, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra); Hermann in Tahnnhäuser (Munich's Bavarian State Opera); Philip II In Don Carlo (Semperoper Dresden, Naples, London's Royal Ballet and Opera); Timur in Turandot (Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera tour in Japan); Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande (Milan's Teatro alla Scala); Alvise Badoero in La Gioconda (Barcelona); Archbishop in The Maid of Orleans (Dutch National Opera); Hunding in Die Walküre (Salzburg, Naples, New York Philharmonic); Gurnemanz in Parsifal (Glyndebourne Festival, Palermo); Mahler's Eighth Symphony (Bergen Philharmonic, Norske Opera); Handel's Messiah (Chicago Symphony Orchestra); title role of Attila (Budapest); Wotan in Das Rheingold (ENO); Sparafucile in Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera); Boris Ismailov in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Metropolitan Opera); King Market in Tristan und Isolde (Glyndebourne); Mephistofeles in Faust (Paris Opera); Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin (Rome); Tippett's A Child of Our Time (Philharmonie de Paris)

Winner of Richard Tucker Award: 2003

San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship Program: 1996, 1997

Merola Opera Program: 1995