John Brancy

Grammy-winning Baritone and New Jersey-native John Brancy is a master with “mesmerizing tone,” says OperaWire. This powerhouse graduate of New York’s famed Juilliard School expertly performs across operatic and musical styles. He’s a virtuoso of staged opera, concert performance, and recital. “It’s hard not to be impressed by the beauty of his voice.” 

Following Brancy’s debut at the Tanglewood Music Center alongside Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson, he will join Opera North for the title role of Eugene Onegin, debut at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Valens in Theodora, reprise the roles he created in George Benjamin’s Picture a Day Like This with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, join the Rotterdam Philharmonic as the baritone soloist in Carmina Burana. 

This season, he returned to Opéra de Montréal in the title role of Don Giovanni, made his house debut at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in Picture a Day Like This, and made his role debut as Il Conte Almaviva in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at Opéra national du Rhin. On the concert stage, Brancy made his debut with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Carmina Burana under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, and appeared with the San Jose and Albany Symphony Orchestras in the United States. He also performed a staged version of Ein deutsches Requiem with the Insula Orchestra at La Seine Musicale in Paris and in Aix-en-Provence. 

Other recent appearances include debuts at the Opéra Comique, Opéra national du Rhin and the Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, reprising his acclaimed dual roles of The Artisan and The Collector in Sir George Benjamin’s Picture a Day Like This. He also debuted with the Bayerische Staatsoper in Weinberg’s Lady Magnesia and made his role debut as Marcello in La bohème at Opéra de Montréal.