Hailed as “impassioned...and vibrant” (Opera Today),

award-winning American tenor John Riesen is consistently impressing audiences with his

"fantastic, powerful voice" (Texarkana Gazette). Riesen’s growing career boasts a variety of

roles in which he excels and includes significant work in Opera, Musical Theater and concert.

He has released two studio recording albums: What You'd Call a Dream (2019) and Christmas

at Home (2020) that have reached over 500,000 streams on Spotify and Apple Music. He has

also collaborated with Emmy-nominated PBS TV pianist Marina Arsenijevic in both video

performance (during COVID-19) and in studio recordings to be released in 2021. John will also

make his Carnegie Hall Debut as the Tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah in 2021.