Biography

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.

This 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.

Myers made his surprise Los Angeles Philharmonic debut in 2017 as Mao in John Adams’s Nixon in Chinaconducted by the composer. 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, Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, and Brett Dean’s Hamlet.

Myers has made concert appearances with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and the Oratorio Society of New York.

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.

Originally from Southern California, Myers received his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. He 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.