Relyea, John

(New Market, Ontario, Canada)

2024–25 Season: The Commander, Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Méphistopélès in Faust; title role of Le Nozze di Figaro; Colline in La Bohème; Zuniga in Carmen

Recent and Upcoming: Bluebeard's Castle (Paris Opera, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Naples’ Teatro di San Carlo); Claggart in Billy Budd (Rome Opera, Oslo); Les Huguenots (Semperoper Dresden); Don Carlos (Metropolitan Opera); Verdi Requiem (Parma's Teatro Regio); Brett Dean's Hamlet (Metropolitan Opera); Die Walküre (Naples); title role of Mefistofele (Rome); The Magic Flute (Rome); Faust (Paris Opera); La Forza del Destino (Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu)

Winner of Richard Tucker Award: 2003

San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship Program: 1996, 1997

Merola Opera Program: 1995