John Tessier

The Canadian tenor JOHN TESSIER (Jack (JFK)) won a Juno Award in Ottawa. His repertoire includes roles like Nemorino L’elisir d’amore (English National Opera), Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Ottawa, Montréal, Seattle), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires), Il Conte d’Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Geneva, ENO, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass), Narraboth in Salome (concertant, Verbier Festival), Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola (Minnesota Opera), the title role in La clemenza di Tito (Vancouver Opera), ​Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Laertes in Hamlet (Washington National Opera), Il Conte di Libenskof in Il viaggio a Reims (Oper Frankfurt) and Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Glimmerglass). He has worked with conductors like Marc Albrecht, Lorin Maazel, Plácido Domingo, John Nelson, Franz WelserMöst, Emmanuelle Haïm, Donald Runnicles and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He has previously sung Il Conte d’Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Boston Lyric Opera), Steuermann in Der fliegende Holländer (ROH Covent Garden), Ferrando in Così fan tutte (Minnesota Opera) Tonio in La fille du régiment (Manitoba Opera), Arturo in I Puritani, Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Vienna State Opera House) and Castor in Castor et Pollux (Theatre des Champs Elysees).