American tenor John Tiranno recently made his Italian debut in Rome singing the Saint-Saëns Requiem (Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra).  The New York Times has called his singing "ardent and mellifluous" and two recent reviews said he "sang pleasing" and was "a fine soloist".

2012 has brought debuts with the Florentine Opera (Elder Hayes in Susannah) as well as with the Center for Contemporary Opera (in world premiere scenes from Mark N. Grant's opera The Human Zoo).  Upcoming engagements include Mozart's Mass in C in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Oratorio Society of New York), an opera gala with the Florentine Opera, and the role of Il Maestro delle Acque in Italo Montemezzi's La Nave (Teatro Grattacielo).

Performances in 2011 include the aforementioned Saint-Saëns Requiem, the U.S. premiere of Juraj Filas' Oratio Spei – Requiem (Sacred Music in a Sacred Space), Bach's St. John Passion and César Franck's Mass in A (Saint Andrew Music Society), Rachmaninoff's Vespers (Musica Sacra), Bach's St. John Passion in Burlington, VT (Oriana Singers), the roles of Noro di Gozzo in I Compagnacci and Il Prete in Il Re  (Teatro Grattacielo), and Mozart's Coronation Mass (Make Music New York Festival).

2010 engagements included creating the role of Trouble in Gisle Kverndokk's Max and Moritz (New York Opera Society), Hoffmann in Les contes d'Hoffmann (Hillman Opera - SUNY Fredonia), Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Concert Opera of Philadelphia), Captain Richard Warrington in Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta (Light Opera of New York), Handel's Messiah (National Academy Orchestra of Canada) and Totonno in Wolf-Ferrari's I Gioielli della Madonna (Teatro Grattacielo).

Other credits include the Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata (Granite State Opera), Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Hamilton, Ontario (National Academy Orchestra of Canada), Handel's Messiah (Dayton Philharmonic), Haydn's Creation and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Vermont Mozart Festival), the roles of Moussah and Ferkamnat in Fervaal (American Symphony Orchestra), Dr. Caius in Falstaff and 2^nd Jew in Salome (Toledo Opera), Lord Tolloller in Iolanthe (Nashville Opera), the title role in Gounod's Faust (Opera in the Heights), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Opera Colorado), Beppe in Pagliacci (New York Grand Opera), and the world premiere of Gregory Walker's The Passion According to St. Toscanini (Boulder Philharmonic).

Mr. Tiranno currently resides in New York City.