John Easterlin

American tenor John Easterlin appears with the COC thsi season as Monostatos in The Magic Flute and The Dancing Master/Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos. Other recent credits include Herod in Salome at Wiener Staatsoper, Prince Nilsky in The Gambler at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Jack O’Brien and Toby Higgins in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Teatro Real Madrid, The Magician in The Consul with Glimmerglass Opera, Squeak in Billy Budd and the Hunchback Brother in Die Frau ohne Schatten at Opéra national de Paris. A regular guest at America’s leading opera companies including Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle, he is a multi Grammy, Emmy and Olivier award recipient, as well as the holder of two Guinness World Records. Future engagements include Alfred in Die Fledermaus at Lake George Festival’s 50th anniversary season, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, the Steuermann in Der fliegende Holländer at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Shabby Peasant in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with Teatro Real, and the Scrivener in Khovanshchina and Hauk-Sendorf in The Makropulos Case, both at the Met.