John Chest

(Greenville, South Carolina)

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Title role of Billy Budd

 

Recent and Upcoming: Papageno in Die Zauberflöte (Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Deutsche Oper Berlin); Ensemble Pygmalion (European tour); Mozart concert with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Valentin in Faust (Teatro Real Madrid, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse); Belcore in L'Elisir d'Amore (Den Norske Opera); Heathcliff in Bernard Hermann's Wuthering Heights (Opéra National de Lorraine); Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (Munich's Bavarian State Opera); Albert in Werther (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées); Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby (Staatsoper Dresden); title role of Don Giovanni (Angers Nantes Opera); Marcello in La Bohème (Washington National Opera); Fritz in Die Tote Stadt (Nantes, Nancy); Nardo in La Finta Giardiniera (Aix-en-Provence); Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Provence); Eddie in Mark Anthony Turnage's Greek (Salzburg Landestheater); Ned Keene in Peter Grimes (Norwegian Opera); Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro (Nationale Reisopera, Opera Philadelphia); Masetto in Don Giovanni (Bari)

Merola Opera Program 2009

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