Hailed by The New York Times as “ardent and mellifluous” as well as a “clear-voiced tenor”, John Tiranno’s recent and upcoming engagements include Handel’s Messiah with the Nashville Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Omaha Symphony, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and the role of Tamino (The Magic Flute) with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Messiah and Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette with the Santa Fe Symphony, Aronne (Mosè in Egitto) and Goro (Madama Butterfly) with Opera Southwest, Spoletta (Tosca) with the New Mexico Philharmonic, the role of Man 1 (Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s Frida) with Opera Southwest and El Paso Opera, and performances of Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with ChatterABQ. 

Notable past performances include Berlioz's Requiem (La Jolla Symphony & Chorus), Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Paul Moravec’s The Blizzard Voices (Oratorio Society of New York), Mahler’s song cycle Das Lied von der Erde with ChatterABQ, creating the role of The Young Man in Gisle Kverndokk’s opera Upon this handful of earth (New York Opera Society), Mozart’s Requiem, Bach's B minor Mass, and the U.S. premiere of Juraj Filas’ Oratio Spei – Requiem (Concerts at St. Ignatius, formerly Sacred Music in a Sacred Space), Bach’s St. John Passion (with Kent Tritle at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine), Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle (The Dessoff Choirs), Richard Strauss' Deutsche Motette (Musica Sacra), Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance (Opera Roanoke), the roles of Moussah and Ferkamnat in Fervaal (American Symphony Orchestra), Lord Tolloller in Iolanthe (Nashville Opera), Il Maestro delle Acque in La Nave (Teatro Grattacielo), and Beppe in Pagliacci (New York Grand Opera). 

Noteworthy international appearances include his European debut in Rome singing the Saint Saëns Requiem (Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra), his South American debut in São Paulo singing Mozart’s Missa in C (at Auditório Ibirapuera), Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Ontario, Canada (Brott Music Festival), and recitals at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology in Jedda, Saudi Arabia.  Other world premiere performances include creating two additional roles for Kverndokk - Trouble in Max and Moritz and the Man in the Mirror in Supersize Girl (both with New York Opera Society), as well as singing the world premiere of Gregory Walker’s The Passion According to St. Toscanini (Boulder Philharmonic).  In 2018, he formed the Young-Tiranno Duo with his wife, violinist and pianist Elizabeth Young.

Young-Tiranno Duo
Elizabeth Young, violin
John Tiranno, tenor

Recorded September 29, 2025
St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Albuquerque, New Mexico