| John Relyea bass-baritone |
| In SFS 2005-2006 Season Stravinsky Orpheus/ Mozart Mass in C minor |
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| Former Adler Fellow and Merolino John Relyea, whose extraordinary bass-baritone has graced many San Francisco Opera productions over the years, is the winner of this year's $30,000 Richard Tucker Award. The award is one of the opera world's biggest deals and honors a young singer for work during the early phases of his or her career. (Story) |
| Harvey Milk Track 7. Act Three: City Hall: Part I: I Can Live With That - Alison Buchanan/Stephen Bryant/Nicolle Foland/Ping Yu/Juliana Gondek/John Relyea |
| The most vocally complete performance, virile and charismatic, came from the young bass-baritone John Relyea as the conniving music teacher and social climber Don Basilio. (Review) |
| There are no weak links as mezzo Stephanie Blythe (Eduige), tenor Kobie van Rensburg (Grimoaldo), and bass John Relyea (Garibaldo) string one vocal pearl after another and move about the stage with grace.(Review in Rodelinda) |
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| It was also another chance to hear John Relyea's incredible bass, if you missed him in Les Troyens. I've rarely heard such a voice. I think, with such power and such grace, he could sing just as easily as a Russian basso profundo. (Review-Armida-Rossini) |
| John Relyea, who made a strong impression in the title role last season, seems to have given it further thought since then. His portrayal was always energetic and vocally attractive, but he has streamlined his physical comedy notably and brought a new sharpness to his renderings of ''Se vuol ballare,'' ''Non pi� andrai'' and ''Aprite un po,'' each characterized distinctly. Figaro, for all his amusing plotting and his ability to face off the Count, can sometimes seem slightly oafish, but Mr. Relyea puts him more firmly in control, at least until his own jealously momentarily gets the best of him in the finale. (Review-Metropolitan Opera's ''Nozze di Figaro'' is it. This staging, by Jonathan Miller- February 5, 2005) |
| CAST A Performance Dates Sat 6/10, Tue 6/13, Sat 6/17, Tue 6/20, Sat 6/24, Tue 6/27 Thr 6/29 |
| In SFO 2006-2007 Season Figaro - Le Nozze Di Figaro |
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| Bass-baritone John Relyea, another former Adler Fellow gone on to well-merited stardom, gave a robust and beautifully modulated performance as Figaro, with a mix of athletic resilience and interpretive charm. Once or twice he struggled to project fully in the large house, but for the most part he commanded the stage./ 06 Review |
| His rich bass sound still made its presence felt in Figaro's ensembles, particularly the quartet textures in the Act II finale and the Act III sextet, but for most of the role he chose to rein in vocal opulence in favor of a more flexible comic sound. His diction was amazing � the crunchy consonants of the line "tutte le macchine rovescer�, rovescer�, rovescer�" (I will ruin, ruin, ruin all his schemes) became almost onomatopoeic./ SFCV |
| Mostly Mozart Festival
Wednesday August 2, at 8:00 pm on PBS *check local listings Maestro Louis Langr�e conducts the Mostly Mozart Orchestra in a Coronation-themed program of Mozart works: the Coronation Piano Concerto # 26 in D major with pianist Garrick Ohlsson, and the Coronation Mass in C major with Hei-Kyung Hong, Susanne Mentzer, Matthew Polenzani and John Relyea as soloists, and the Concert Chorale of New York. |
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