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Evan LeRoy Johnson

tenor

For the Minnesota Orchestra’s performances of Mozart’s Requiem on November 22 and 23, 2024, we are pleased to welcome tenor soloist Evan LeRoy Johnson, who will perform in place of Jack Swanson, who is unable to appear due to family reasons.

American tenor Evan LeRoy Johnson began the 2024-25 season with a hometown debut at Minnesota Opera in Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) followed by returns to San Francisco Opera for La Bohème (Rodolfo), National Theatre in Prague for Medea (Giasone) and a debut with the Canadian Opera Company in Eugene Onegin (Lenski). Future seasons include debuts with the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago along with a return to the National Theatre in Prague.

Last season Johnson made his debut at the National Theatre in Prague for Rusalka (Prince) followed by a debut at Royal Danish Opera for Madame Butterfly (Pinkerton) and returns to Glyndebourne Festival and BBC Proms for Carmen (Don José) and Bayerische Staatsoper for Otello (Cassio) and Tannhäuser (Walther).

Other recent engagements include his debut with San Francisco Opera in Eugene Onegin (Lenski) followed by a return to the Ensemble at Bayerische Staatsoper where he was seen in Dialogues des Carmélites (Chevalier de la Force), Ariadne auf Naxos (Brighella), Salome (Narraboth), Manon Lescaut (Edmondo), The Magic Flute (Erster Geharnischter) and Otello (Cassio). Johnson made debuts at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Berlin Philharmonic in Die Frau ohne Schatten (Die Erscheinung eines Jünglings) conducted by Kirill Petrenko, Salzburger Festspiele for a new Krzysztof Warlikowski production of Macbeth (Malcolm) conducted by Philippe Jordan, and a concert of Bizet and Bernstein at Musikfest Bremen with the Bremer Philharmoniker.

Johnson joined the Ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2021-22 and was seen in La Bohème (Rodolfo), Die tote Stadt (Graf Albert), Der fliegende Holländer (Steuermann), Il trovatore (Ruiz) and Die Frau ohne Schatten (Der Bucklinge). Additional engagements included Madame Butterfly (Pinkerton) for his debut at the Dallas Opera and his return to Oper Frankfurt in a new production directed by R. B. Schlather. Other recent engagements include a debut at Lyric Opera of Kansas City in Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo) and the Verdi Messa da Requiem with Opera Philadelphia.

Johnson made his Bayerische Staatsoper debut in a new production of Otello (Cassio) conducted by Kirill Petrenko, Oper Frankfurt debut in Barrie Kosky’s production of Carmen (Don José) and Glyndebourne Festival debut in Rusalka (Prince) conducted by Robin Ticciati. He also returned to Opera Philadelphia for La Bohème (Rodolfo) and performed Der fliegende Holländer (Steuermann) in concert with the Milwaukee Symphony conducted by Edo de Waart. Johnson made his debut at Opernhaus Zürich in Salome (Narraboth), at Opera Philadelphia in Carmen (Don José) and Des Moines Metro Opera in Rusalka (Prince). He made his German debut at Oldenburgisches Staatstheater in a new production of Carmen (Don José) and sang the Verdi Messa da Requiem with the Columbus Symphony. Johnson made his European debut at the Norwegian National Opera in Calixto Bieto’s production of Britten’s War Requiem conducted by Lothar Koenigs.