The bass John Relyea has appeared on many of the world’s great operatic stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Opéra national de Paris, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Real, Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, and Canadian Opera Company, Toronto. Spanning a vast range of repertoire, his roles include the title roles in Attila, Don Quichotte, and Aleko, Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Bertram (Robert le diable), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Colline (La bohème), Don Alfonso (Lucrezia Borgia), Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Giorgio (I puritani), Enrico (Anna Bolena), Banco (Macbeth), Méphistophélès (Faust and La Damnation de Faust), Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress), Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia), and the Water Sprite (Rusalka). In concert, he has performed with major orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, Wiener Philharmoniker, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and St Louis Symphony. John Relyea is a prolific recording artist who may be seen on the Metropolitan Opera’s DVD productions of Don Giovanni, I puritani, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Macbeth, and Rusalka.