GARRISON, JON Jon Garrison, tenor
The gifted American tenor, Jon Garrison, is a favourite of many of the world's
distinguished conductors. At the Metropolitan Opera he was Cassio in Otello,
Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Romeo in Roméo et Juliette,
von Eisenstein in Strauss's Die Fledermaus, and Ottavio in Don Giovanni.
His European engagements have included the title role in Idomeneo with
the Garsington Opera in Surrey, Adolar in Weber's Euryanthe with the
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London, and Birtwistle's Mask of
Orpheus and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with the BBC Symphony Orchestra,
and with von Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra. Other important engagements
have explored his extensive, varied repertoire in a busy schedule of international
appearances in opera and in the concert hall. Jon Garrison sang in the world
premières of Stewart Copeland's Holy Blood, Crescent Moon for
Cleveland Opera, Jay Reise's Rasputin with New York City Opera, and Hugo
Weisgall's The Gardens of Adonis for Opera Omaha. He participated in
a tribute to Gian Carlo Menotti with the Little Orchestra Society at Lincoln
Center and appeared in Claude Baker's Into the Sun with Leonard Slatkin
and the National Symphony. He performed Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers
with the London Sinfonietta and his Kammermusik with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, Sheng's Songs of Majnun for New York Chamber Symphony,
and Britten's War Requiem with several orchestras. On the occasion of
the farewell performances of Zubin Mehta's tenure with the New York Philharmonic,
he sang and recorded Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder. He has recorded Szymanowski's
Symphony No. 3 under the baton of Simon Rattle and the Evangelist in
the St Matthew Passion with Raymond Leppard. Other recordings include
The Rake's Progress and Oedipus Rex, and Handel's Roman Vespers.
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