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John
Bellemer

Tenor

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Luisa Miller, Verdi
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Mines of Sulphur, Bennett
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‘Nocturne’ from Serenade, Britten
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‘Come Again’, Dowland; Jason Vieaux – Guitar
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‘O Way Out of No Way’, Toby Twining (Microtonal Guitar)
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Reviews

Teatro Grattacielo came up with an attractive pair of romantic leads, both musical of phrase and instinct. John Bellemer sang gracefully, able to let his tenor ring but reaping especial dividends from dynamic restraint.
[L’amico Fritz – Teatro Grattacielo (NYC)]

Opera (London)

Still, the piece managed to work its magic, thanks largely to the strength of its cast. In the title role, John Bellemer offered a sweet tenor and charming stage presence, as well as a fine sense of dynamics.
[L’amico Fritz – Teatro Grattacielo (NYC)]

Opera News

The most accomplished singing came from John Bellemer’s Rodolfo, whose ‘Quando le sere al placido’… rang out sweetly and sincerely.
[Luisa Miller – Buxton Festival]

Financial Times

Leading the cast, John Bellemer’s Sali was an attractive presence both vocally and dramatically. His is a technique that leaves nothing to chance, finishing and finessing each phrase with great attention. A lovely open top register brings colour to the more impassioned moments, and he balanced a convincing sense of youthful uncertainty with a mature delivery.
[A Village Romeo and Juliet – Wexford Festival]

New Statesman (UK)

John Bellemer as Macduff … [gives a] superlative performance that serve[s] as a moral compass to the actions of the usurper of Macbeth. Macduff … is a creature of revenge for the sake of the greater good, and Bellemer imparts a well-placed sadness.
[Macbeth – Vancouver Opera]

Vancouver WestEnder

You haven’t fully experienced that Verdi chestnut “La donna è mobile” until you’ve heard a Duke like tenor John Bellemer sing it
[Rigoletto – OTSL]

New York Times

Recordings

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Adelaide - John Bellemer, tenor; David Holkeboer, piano

“His is a technique that leaves nothing to chance,

finishing and finessing each phrase with great attention.”

Possessed of a voice the New York Times calls “clarion-toned”, the American tenor John Bellemer has gained a reputation for his strong portrayals in a wide range of repertoire. Bellemer has appeared in leading roles at opera houses across North America and Europe and was featured as Gounod’s Faust in the Academy Award-nominated film Lincoln.

In the 2020-2021 season, Bellemer was to have made his debut with Teatro Communale di Bologna in Haydn’s Die Schöpfung; and with the Atlanta Master Chorale in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis which were either canceled or postponed due to COVID-19.

Engagements in recent seasons have included include Nadir in Les Pêcheurs de Perles with North Carolina Opera; Duca in Rigoletto with Michigan Opera Theater; featured artist with the Salt Bay Chamber Festival, and concert performances of Beethoven’s Mass in C and Verdi’s Requiem. Bellemer made debuts with Teatro Reggio Torino as both the tenor soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana and the Evangelist in the world premiere of Newton’s St. Matthew Passion. He was Lysander in Hawaii Opera’s production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Peter Quint in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw in China (Beijing); and Steuermann in Der fliegende Holländer with Austin Opera. He returned to Wexford Festival Opera as Gabriele in Foroni’s Cristina, Regina di Svezia; and to the Berkshire Choral Festival as Gerontius in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Britten’s Spring Symphony; and performed Toni in Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers at Venice’s Teatro la Fenice.

Bellemer has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center works by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms; at Florence’s Maggio Musicale in the The Rape of Lucretia; with Florida Grand Opera as Alfredo in La Traviata; as Nebuchadnezzar in Britten’s The Burning Fiery Furnace and as Herold in the world premiere of Grassl’s Tassilo with Festival Mattseer Diabelli Sommer in Austria; at the Buxton Festival as Riccardo in Donizetti’s Maria di Rohan; and with Boston Lyric Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni as well as Sandy/Officer One in Davies’ The Lighthouse.

Other international appearances include Opéra National de Bordeaux, Opéra National de Lorraine, Opéra de Rouen, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Teatro delle Muse, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, Opéra de Rennes, Theater Erfurt, Stadttheater Giessen, Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Estonian National Opera, and Teatro Arriaga among others.

Mr. Bellemer’s extensive North American credits also include performances with New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, Madison Opera, Cleveland Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Vancouver Opera, Arizona Opera, Calgary Opera, Minnesota Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Dayton Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Grand Rapids, Opera Ontario, Opera Birmingham, Opera San José, and the Berkshire Opera.

As concert artist, Mr. Bellemer has also appeared with the Columbus Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Pacific Symphony, L’orchestre de Bretagne, Orchestra de Leonardo da Vinci, Toledo Symphony, New York Choral Society, Calgary Philharmonic, Bangor Symphony, American Symphony Orchestra, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Choral Arts Society of Washington DC, Oratorio Society of New York, and concerts in Paris and New York City sponsored by UNESCO.

In addition to his appearance in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Bellemer has appeared on stage in productions led by film directors Werner Herzog and Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

Bellemer began choral singing as a young child and continued throughout his school years, eventually choosing to study voice over medicine at James Madison University where he received his Bachelor of Music degree. He went on to complete his master’s degree in music at the University of Illinois.

Bellemer has always derived a joy from singing that is evident to his audiences around the world for whom he has sung throughout his distinguished career. “As long as I continue to grow as a performer and a person and as long as the joy continues,” Bellemer says, “I hope to be singing for a very long time.”

Bellemer lives in New York with his wife, Sarah Blaze and their two Parson Russell Terriers.

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Oratorio

Bach
CHRISTMAS ORATORIO, MAGNIFICAT, ST. JOHN PASSION,
ST. MATTHEW PASSION

Beethoven
CHORAL FANTASY, MISSA SOLEMNIS, STABAT MATER,
SYMPHONY NO. 9

Britten
SERENADE, SPRING SYMPHONY,
WAR REQUIEM

Bruckner
TE DEUM

Dvorák
STABAT MATER

Elgar
THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS

Handel
MESSIAH

Haydn
DIE SCHÖPFUNG,
HARMONIEMESSE

Janácek
MŠA GLAGOLSKAJA

Mendelssohn
ELIJAH

Mozart
REQUIEM, MASS IN C MINOR, CORONATION MASS,
VESPERAE SOLENNES DE CONFESSORE

Orff
CARMINA BURANA

Puccini
MESSA DI GLORIA

Rossini
PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE,
STABAT MATER

Verdi
REQUIEM

Opera

Argento
THE ASPERN PAPERS (Aspern)

Barber
VANESSA (Anatol)

Beethoven
FIDELIO (Jacquino)

Bennett
MINES OF SULPHUR (Bocconnion)

Berg
WOZZECK (Andres)

Bizet
CARMEN (Don José)
LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES (Nadir)

Britten
ALBERT HERRING (Albert)
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Lysander)
THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE (Nebuchadnezzar)
THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA (Male Chorus)
THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Peter Quint)

Brooks
LE TRAGEDIE DE CARMEN (Don Jose)

Carter
WHAT NEXT? (Zen)

Davids
PURCHASE OF MANHATTAN (Peter Minuit) *WP

Davies
THE LIGHTHOUSE (Sandy/Officer 1)

Debussy
PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (Pelléas)

Delius
A VILLAGE ROMEO AND JULIET (Sali)

Doderer
DER LEUCHTENDE FLUSS (Ira Hayes) *WP

Donizetti
DON PASQUALE (Ernesto)
L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Nemorino)
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Edgardo)
LUCREZIA BORGIA (Gennaro)
MARIA DI ROHAN (Riccardo)
ROBERTO DEVEREUX (Devereux)

Floyd
OF MICE AND MEN (Ballad Singer)
SUSANNAH (Sam)

Foroni
CRISTINA REGINA DI SVEZIA (Gabriele)

Gounod
FAUST (Faust)
ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Roméo)

Grassl
HARISLIZ (Herold) *WP

Handel
XERXES (Xerxes)

Henze
ELEGY FOR YOUNG LOVERS (Toni)

Hindemith
NEUES VOM TAGE (Herr M)

Kimper
PATIENCE AND SARAH (Edward White) *WP

Lehár
DIE LUSTIGE WITWE (Danilo, Alfred)

Manoury
60TH PARALLEL (Dr. Wittkopf)

Mascagni
L’AMICO FRITZ (Fritz Kobus)

Massenet
MANON (Chevalier des Grieux)
WERTHER (Werther)

Mozart
COSÍ FAN TUTTE (Ferrando) DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Tamino)
DON GIOVANNI (Don Ottavio)
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (Belmonte)

Offenbach
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN (Hoffmann)
ORPHEUS…(Pluto)

Puccini
LA BOHÈME (Rodolfo)
MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Pinkerton)

Rossini
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Almaviva)
L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI (Lindoro)

Roussel
PADMAVATI (Ratan Sen)

Strauss, J.
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Alfred)

Strauss, R
DER ROSENKAVALIER (Italian Singer)

Stravinsky
THE RAKE’S PROGRESS (Tom Rakewell)

Sullivan
HMS PINAFORE (Ralph)
THE MIKADO (Nanki-Poo)
UTOPIA LIMITED (Fitzbattleaxe)
YEOMAN OF THE GUARD (First Yeoman)
IOLANTHE (Lord Tolloller)

Tchaikovsky
EUGENE ONEGIN (Lensky)

Verdi
FALSTAFF (Fenton)
LUISA MILLER (Rodolfo)
MACBETH (Macduff)
RIGOLETTO (Duke)
LA TRAVIATA (Alfredo)

Wagner
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (Steuermann)
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Ein Junger Seemann, Ein Hirt)

*WP – World Premier

Conductors

Andrew Altenbach | David Angus | James Bagwell | Bruno Bartoletti | Patrick Baton | Michael Borowitz | Richard Buckley | Thomas Cockrell | Anton Coppola | Jonathan Darlington | Patrick Davin | James Fellenbaum | Mark Flint | John Daly Goodwin | Grant Gershon | Hans Graf | Andrew Greenwood | Francis Graffeo | Anton Guadagno | Walter E. Gugerbauer | Raymond Harvey | Gunther Herbig | Benton Hess | Thomas Heuser | Sara Jobin | Cal Stewart Kellogg | Kathleen Kelly | Karen Keltner | Kurt Klippstatter | Gérard Korsten | Lothar Koenigs | Kelly Kuo | Sebastian Lang-Lessing | Eric Lederhandler | Raymond Leppard | Keith Lockhart | Timothy Long | Stephen Lord | Grant Llewellyn | Robert Lyall | Paul Mägi | Jonathan McPhee | Andreas Mitisek | Michael Morgan | Timothy Myers | Kent Nagano | Steven Osgood | Emmanuel Plasson | Joel Revzen | Lucas Richman | Stewart Robertson | Kai Röhrig | Thomas Rösner | Julius Rudel | Valéry Ryvkin | Oswald Sallaberger | Stefan Sanderling | Allan R. Scott | Jerome Shannon | Murry Sidlin | Alfredo Silipigni | Carl St.Clair | Ramón Tebar | Gloria Isabel Ramos Triano | Kent Tritle | Barbara Day Turner | Emmanuel Villaum | Jonathan Webb | Gary Wedow | Evan Whallon | Dean Williamson

Directors

Daniele Abbado | David Alagna | Tim Albery | Laura Alley | David Bamberger | Michael Barker-Caven | David Bartholomew | Emanuelle Bastet | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Garnett Bruce | Michael Cavanagh | Ron Daniels | Malena Dayen | Brian Deedrick | Jean-Phillipe Delavault | Robert DeSimone | Bruce Donnell | Cynthia Edwards | Michael Donald Edwards | Eric Einhorn | Candace Evans | Giuseppe Frigeni | Emma Griffin | Bliss Hebert | Daniel Helfgot | Sam Helfrich | Werner Herzog | Chuck Hudson | Jay Julian | Gregory Keller | Stefanos Koroneos | Matthew Lata | Rhoda Levine | Albert-André Lheureux | Josh Major | Leon Major | Kristine McIntyre | Stephen Medcalf | Nat Merrill | Guy Montavon | Nic Muni | Charles Newell | Tim Ocel | Johnathon Pape | Pierre Luigi Pizzi | Joachim Schamberger | William Shomos | Steven Spielberg* | James Stuart | William Stribling* | Elaine Tyler-Hall |
*film

Opera Companies

Austria
Festival Mattseer Diabelli Sommer
Belgium
Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Idée Fixe – Opera en Plein Air
British Isles
Buxton Festival, Chelsea Opera ,Wexford Festival
Estonia
Estonia National Opera
France
Opéra National de Bordeaux, Opéra National de Lorraine, Opéra de Rennes, Opéra de Rouen Normandie,
Opéra de Vichy
Germany
Theater Erfurt, Stadttheater Gießen
Italy
Teatro delle Muse – Ancona, Teatro di San Carlo – Napoli, Teatro La Fenice – Venezia,
Opera di Firenze – Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari,
Torino Jazz Festival, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi
Spain
Teatro Arriaga – Bilbao

Opera productions in Korea (Seoul), and China (Beijing and Shanghai).

North American Opera Companies

New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Cleveland Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Vancouver Opera, Arizona Opera, Austin Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Calgary Opera, Minnesota Opera, Hawaii Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Teatro Grattacielo, Dayton Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Grand Rapids, Opera Ontario, Madison Opera, Opera Birmingham, Shreveport Opera, Opera San José, Berkshire Opera, Pensacola Opera, Sarasota Opera, The Ohio Light Opera

Orchestras |Chamber Music

Columbus Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Lincoln Center Festival, Salt Bay Chamber Festival, Winnipeg Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Orchestre National de Bretagne, Orchestre de Leonardo da Vinci, Toledo Symphony, Oakland Symphony, New York Choral Society, Calgary Philharmonic, Bangor Symphony, American Symphony Orchestra, Helena Symphony, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Idaho Falls Symphony, Arts Society of Washington DC, Oratorio Society of New York, Longwood Symphony, San José Symphony, Reno Chamber Orchestra, and concerts in Paris and New York City sponsored by UNESCO.

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Representation

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North/South America

Miguel A. Rodriguez
Athlone Artists
miguel@athloneartists.com
+1 (617) 651-4600
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International (outside of Italy)

Sean Kelly
Insignia Athlone Artist Management
sean@insigniaathlone.com
+33 07 45 08 36 80
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Italy

Andrea Penna
Ornella Cogliolo
cogliolo@cogliolo.it
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