John will be making his Metropolitan Opera debut as Tenor 1 in the Pit Ensemble in Brett Dean’s Hamlet conducted by Nicholas Carter and directed by Neil Armfield.

When Australian composer Brett Dean’s Hamlet had its world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017, The Guardian declared, “New opera doesn’t often get to sound this good … Shakespeare offers a gauntlet to composers that shouldn’t always be picked up, but Dean’s Hamlet rises to the challenge.” Now, this riveting contemporary masterpiece arrives at the Met, with Neil Armfield, who directed the work’s premiere, bringing his acclaimed staging to New York.

Performances:

May 13, 18, 21, 26, 31

Jun 04, 09

HD Broadcast: June 4th

John will be joining the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia for performances of Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings conducted by David Hayes.

January 23 | 2:30 PM
January 24 | 7:30 PM

PERELMAN THEATER, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

John will be covering the role of Kunz Vogelsang in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Metropolitan Opera.

October 26th, 30th

November 4th, 7th, 11th, 14th

John will be returning to the Metropolitan Opera to cover the Holy Fool in Mussorsky’s Boris Godunov.

September 28th

October 2nd, 5th, 9th, 14th, 17th

Jacksonville Symphony

BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”

Courney Lewis, Music Director

Kevin Reid, Principal Horn

The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings is testament to Benjamin Britten’s flare for setting poetry to music. Tenor John Matthew Myers and principal horn player Kevin Reid navigate this anthology of text tethered by a common atmosphere of night, sleep, and dreams. As the Serenade paints the night, so Schumann’s final symphony, the “Rhenish,” depicts the landscapes of the Rhine River through a tapestry of evocative melodies.

Handel: Messiah - National Symphony Orchestra

Everyone knows the Hallelujah chorus, but if that’s all you know, you’re in for a treat! Every note of Handel’s Messiah is just as inspired, and our holiday tradition never fails to bring Washingtonians of all beliefs together in joyful celebration. This season, celebrated Baroque specialist Fabio Biondi—best known as the founder and longtime director of the respected period-instrument group Europa Galante—brings his fresh perspective to Handel’s beloved work.

Handel: Messiah

Fabio Biondi, conductor
Liv Redpath, soprano
Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano
John Matthew Myers, tenor
Neal Davies, bass
University of Maryland Concert Choir
—Edward Maclary, Director

The Messiah of all Messiahs! The Philharmonic’s performance is the must-see, must-hear event and quintessential highpoint of the holiday season. Handel’s supreme masterpiece speaks to us with passion, beauty, spirituality, and joy. Dazzling solos, instrumental fireworks, and the most glorious choral writing of all time — including the stirring “Hallelujah” chorus — are guaranteed to thrill.

Conductor: Fabio Biondi

Liv Redpath, Soprano

Kate Lindsey, Mezzo-Soprano

John Matthew Myers, Tenor

Neal Davies, Bass-Baritone

Concert Chorale of New York
James Bagwell, director

December 8th - 7:30pm

December 9th - 7:30pm

December 10th - 7:30pm

December 11th - 11:00am

December 12th - 7:30pm

John will be returning to the Los Angeles Philharmonic to reprise his role of Mao Tse-Tung in John Adams’ Nixon in China directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer and conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.

When director Peter Sellars suggested that John Adams write an opera about President Nixon’s pathbreaking visit to China, Adams was quite reluctant, assuming it would be a satire of figures that had become one-dimensional punchlines for late-night comics. What Adams and Sellars instead created – with the crucial help of poet Alice Goodman’s thoughtful libretto – was an exploration of the humanity of six individuals: Nixon and his wife Pat, Chairman Mao and Madame Mao, Henry Kissinger, and Chou En-lai, in both their darkness and light, ultimately showing how the characters of today’s headlines become tomorrow’s myths.  
 
As each character sings of his/her hopes and fears, the opera’s moods range from wistful to bittersweet to tragically poignant. Musically, Adams achieves a remarkable mix of his version of Minimalism with bits of Wagner, Strauss, Stravinsky, jazz, and the big band sounds of Nixon’s youth. Elkhanah Pulitzer’s inventive production was widely acclaimed when it debuted here.

John will be covering the role of Mao Tse-Tung in Elkhanah Pultizer’s production of John Adams’ Nixon in China with the Washington National Opera.

There’s a story behind the superpowers.

Music by John Adams / Libretto by Alice Goodman

Oct. 31, Nov. 2, 6, 8m, 11 & 14 (2020) in the Opera House
In English with Projected English Titles
Composed 1987
Co-Production with LA Philharmonic

Nixon. Kissinger. Mao. Political titans converge in China in February 1972 for “the week that changed the world.” But the headlines will miss one side of the story: the inner lives behind the history.

Celebrated as a 20th-century classic, John Adams’s Nixon in China captures President Richard Nixon’s landmark visit with Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the media frenzy that followed. Adams’s sweeping music fuses national and personal histories, from Pat Nixon’s vision for a peaceful world to Madame Mao’s defiant reflection on the Cultural Revolution. Nixon in China’s final aria reverberates with a timely question for Washington audiences, asking: “How much of what we did was good?”

John will be returning to the Santa Barbara Symphony to celebrate the 250th birthday of Beethoven with performances of excerpts from his opera Fidelio and his 9th Symphony.

Conducted by Nir Kabaretti

John will be covering the roles of Turridu in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Canio in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci with the Seattle Opera.

Pagliacci: Music and Libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Cavalleria rusticana: Music by Pietro Mascagni; Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci

Experience twice the drama and twice the thrill with an earthy new production of opera’s classic double bill. Small-town lives are turned upside down when a returning soldier and a vengeful clown upset provincial norms, resulting in shocking crimes of passion. In a single performance, two distinct yet complementary tales of adultery, jealousy, and revenge explore elemental emotions in true verismo style.

Benjamin Britten pulls out all the stops in this massive ode to winter’s end. A rapturous work, Spring Symphony combines solo singers, orchestra and chorus. Also on the program, hear In principio, a riveting, pristine dreamscape by Estonian mystic Arvo Pärt. The concert opens with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture, a work that spins Orthodox chant into a barn-burning showpiece.

Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Friday, June 26, 2020, 6:30pm – 8:30pm 
Concert: Saturday, June 27, 2020, 7:30pm – 9:30pm 

Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus

Carlos Kalmar, Conductor

Christopher Bell, Chorus Director

Anima — Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus

Jane Archibald, Soprano

Siena Licht Miller, Mezzo-Soprano

John will sing the role of Itulbo in Bellini’s Il Pirata with the Teatro Massimo di Palermo under the direction of Luigi Di Gangi and Ugo Giacomazzi and conducted by Francesco Ivan Ciampa.

Wed,June 3 2020, 8:00 pm
Sat,June 6 2020, 6:30 pm
Sun,June 7 2020, 5:30 pm
Mon,June 8 2020, 6:30 pm
Tue,June 9 2020, 6:30 pm

The Santa Barbara Symphony celebrates the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven, an artist who is arguably the defining figure in the history of Western music.

Nir Kabaretti, conductor

Alessio Bax, piano
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Nina Yoshida Nelsen, mezzo-soprano
John Matthew Myers, tenor
Stephen Morscheck, bass
Santa Barbara Choral Society
Quire of Voyces

• Beethoven: Mass in C major, Op. 86

• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 

• Beethoven: Fantasia in C minor, Op. 80, “Choral Fantasy”

May 16th, 2020 - 8:00pm

May 17th, 2020 - 3:00pm

John will be joining the roster of the Metropolitan Opera to cover in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier.

December 13th, 17th, 20th, 23rd, 28th, January 1st, and 4th 2019

John will be joining the roster of the Metropolitan Opera to cover the role of Chekalinsky in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades.

Tchaikovsky’s eerie thriller of imperial Russia has its first performances at the Met since 2011. Tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko is Hermann, the fanatical gambler whose obsession with a powerful secret drives him to madness.

November 29th, December 2nd, 5th, 8th, 14th, 18th, 21st 2019

John is thrilled to be joining the Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute as a fellow in the Singers program.

Concert details TBA.

The Grant Park Orchestra is joined by the chorus and a starry roster of guest artists in Beethoven’s rarely performed masterwork, Missa Solemnis (Saturday night's performance will be indoors at the Harris Theater).

Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Concert: Friday, June 28, 2019, 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Concert: Saturday, June 29, 2019, 7:30pm – 9:30pm

Grant Park Orchestra And Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, Principal Conductor
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director

New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic’s climactic season finale is the World Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang’s opera prisoner of the state in a fully staged production directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer. A retelling of Beethoven’s Fidelio, the bold new opera chronicles a woman’s attempt to rescue her husband from unjust political imprisonment. The action unfolds around the musicians of the Orchestra, who are both observers of the story and participants in the prison.

Music of Conscience: prisoner of the state
Thursday, June 6, 2019, 7:30pm
Friday, June 7, 2019, 8:00pm
Saturday, June 8, 2019, 8:00pm

Jaap van Zweden conductor
Elkhanah Pulitzer director (debut)
Concert Chorale of New York  
Donald Nally director
Matt Saunders scenic designer
Maarten Warmerdam / Theatermachine lighting designer
Adam Larsen projection designer
Maline Casta costume designer
Mark Grey sound designer

David LANG  prisoner of the state (World PremiereNew York Philharmonic Co-Commission with Rotterdam’s de Doelen and London’s Barbican, Barcelona’s l’Auditori, Bochum Symphony Orchestra, and Bruges’s Concertgebouw)