On the international stages of opera, concert, and recital, Canadian John Tessier has gained attention and praise for the beauty and honesty of his voice, for a refined style and creative versatility, and for his handsome, youthful presence in the lyric tenor repertoire. The Juno Award winning artist has worked with many of the most notable conductors of our day including Lorin Maazel, Leonard Slatkin, Plácido Domingo, John Nelson, Franz Welser-Möst, Donald Runnicles, Robert Spano, and Bernard Labadie.

A busy 2010-11 season sees John Tessier as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni for his South American debut at the Teatro Colón with conductor John Neschling, as Narraboth in a concert presentation of Salome at the Verbier Festival conducted Valery Gergiev, and as Count Almaviva in a new production of Il barbiere di Siviglia at Grand Théâtre de Genève under the baton of Alberto Zedda. In North America, John Tessier joins the Minnesota Opera as Don Ramiro in La cenerentola, debuts at Seattle Opera as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, and assays the title role of La clemenza di Tito at Vancouver Opera.

His demanding concert schedule includes performances of Berlioz' L'enfance du Christ under Serge Baudo with the Orchestre National de Lyon, Carmina Burana with Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra, and Rossini's Stabat Mater in a return engagement with Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst.