John Matthew Myers

Praised for his "strong, pleasant timbre with textual command and expressiveness" (Opera Magazine), John Matthew Myers has garnered acclaim for his "lovely, warm tenor of considerable promise" (Opera News) in recent collaborations with companies such as the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Verbier Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Teatro alla Scala and Teatro La Fenice. His critically acclaimed solo debut album, a thoughtful program of works by American and American émigré composers titled Desiderium with pianist Myra Huang, was released on AVIE Records in 2022. In the 2025–26 season, Myers returns to the Opéra National de Paris, reprising his celebrated portrayal of Mao in Nixon in China alongside Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming, conducted by Kent Nagano. He sings Florestan in Fidelio at Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Prince in The Love for Three Oranges at Semperoper Dresden. On the concert stage, he joins the Pittsburgh Symphony and conductor Manfred Honeck, Houston Symphony and conductor Patrick Quigley, and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for Handel's Messiah.

In the 2024–25 season, Myers joined Evgeny Kissin in recital at Carnegie Hall alongside Sasha Cooke and Susanna Phillips in Shostakovich's From Jewish Folk Poetry, returning to Carnegie Hall soon after to join the American Symphony Orchestra in the title role of Strauss's Guntram in concert. He performed Handel's Messiah with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck and with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and sang Mahler's Eighth Symphony with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and at the Grant Park Music Festival. He joined the Oregon Symphony as tenor soloist in Mendelssohn's Lobgesang, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Waldemar in Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder conducted by Zubin Mehta. In concert, he sang Iopas in Les Troyens at Seattle Opera with Ludovic Morlot and Cavaradossi in Tosca with the Richmond Symphony under Valentina Peleggi. With the Opera Carlo Felice Genova, he debuted as Midas in Strauss's Die Liebe der Danae under Fabio Luisi, as well as the Tenor/Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos with Opernhaus Zürich conducted by Markus Poschner in a new production by Andreas Homoki. During the summer, he joined the Bard Festival in the title role of Smetana's Dalibor to critical acclaim, returning later in the summer for Martinů's The Epic of Gilgamesh at the Bard Festival.

Myers made his surprise Los Angeles Philharmonic debut in 2017 as Mao in John Adams's Nixon in China conducted by the composer. In 2023, he reprised the role with the Opéra National de Paris under Gustavo Dudamel, "handling Mao's tessitura with seeming ease and limning a convincing portrayal both imposing and humorous" (Classical Voice North America). Recently, Myers has covered roles for the Metropolitan Opera in productions of Britten's Peter Grimes, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Wagner's Die Meistersinger, Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades and Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. The 2021–22 season included a role in the Metropolitan Opera's premiere of Brett Dean's Hamlet, and last season, he also covered Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walküre with the Fort Worth Symphony.

Highlights of Myers' extensive opera repertoire include Pollione in Norma (LA Opera), Cavaradossi in Tosca (Arizona Opera), Don José in Carmen (Music Academy of the West), Cassio in Otello (Portland Summer Fest), Flavio in Bellini's Norma (Teatro Regio di Parma), Trin in La fanciulla del West (Santa Fe Opera), Valerio in Mercadante's Virginia (Wexford Festival Opera), Der Kaiser in Die Frau ohne Schatten (San Francisco Opera), Aufide in Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon (Collegiate Chorale/Carnegie Hall), Junior/Charlie in Jennifer Higdon's Cold Mountain (Santa Fe Opera) and the Tenor/Bacchus in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos (Teatro La Fenice). As a resident artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts, Myers sang Duca di Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto, Prince Sinodal in Rubinstein's The Demon, Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos and the Prince in Dvořák's Rusalka. He has collaborated with Long Beach Opera to perform Michael Gordon's Van Gogh, Gabriela Ortiz's Camelia la Tejana: Únicamente La Verdad, Stewart Copeland's Tell-Tale Heart, and a co-production of Tobias Picker's Thérèse Raquin with Chicago Opera Theater. He made his New York Philharmonic debut in the world premiere of David Lang's prisoner of the state, directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer. He also sang in John Cage's Europeras 1 & 2 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in collaboration with The Industry and Yuval Sharon.

Originally from Southern California, Myers received his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, was a Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, an apprentice artist with Santa Fe Opera, an alumnus of the Verbier Festival Academy, and a fellow with Music Academy of the West. He won Third Prize and the Richard Tauber Prize for the best interpretation of Schubert Lieder at the 2022 Wigmore Hall Bollinger International Song Competition.