Originally from Buffalo, NY, tenor John Tiranno’s 2007 engagements included Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Hamilton, Ontario (The National Academy Orchestra of Canada), his Avery Fisher Hall debut singing L’Indovino in Leoni’s L’Oracolo (Teatro Grattacielo), a return to Carnegie Hall as tenor soloist in Imant Raminsh’s The Peace of Wild Things (a New York Premiere with MidAmerica Productions), Marco in The Gondoliers (Vermont Mozart Festival), Handel Messiah’s in Wheeling, WV (Bethany College Festival Orchestra) as well as in Newark, NJ (The Discovery Orchestra, formerly The Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Vermont Mozart Festival), and Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Connecticut Grand Opera). 

2006 highlights include Lord Tolloller in Iolanthe (Nashville Opera), Beppe in Pagliacci (New York Grand Opera), Mozart’s Missa Brevis, K.275 (MidAmerica Productions), Giacomino in La Farsa Amorosa (Teatro Grattacielo), Handel’s Messiah (Bethany College Festival Orchestra) and Opera Gala concerts with Boheme Opera of New Jersey and The National Academy Orchestra of Canada. 

Other credits include the world premiere of The Passion According to St. Toscanini (Boulder Philharmonic), the title role in Gounod’s Faust (Opera in the Heights), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Opera Colorado), the Duke of Mantua, Nemorino, Tamino, Belmonte, and Camille de Rosillon, as well as appearances with Sarasota Opera, Lake George Opera, Augusta Opera, the Ash Lawn Opera, Fredonia Chamber Players, New  England Symphonic Ensemble, and the Three Rivers Choral Society.  Mr. Tiranno holds a BM from S.U.N.Y. Fredonia, and a MM from West Virginia University, both in Vocal Performance.  He is a past winner of the Dorothy Strayer-Premier Music Award and the Pittsburgh Concert Society Major Audition, and has sung under the batons of Maestri including Vincent La Selva, Boris Brott, David Wroe, Dean Williamson, and William Boggs.