Hailed by Broadway World as having a “sweet and smooth voice, glowing with power,” tenor Jonathan Johnson has over a decade of global performance experience. He has performed with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington Concert Opera, Opera Colorado and more, and has toured in the United States and abroad with renowned trumpeter Chris Botti.

 

Recent performances include the Steerman in “Der Fliegended Holländer” with Opera Colorado, Alfredo in “La traviata” with North Carolina Opera, as well as debuts with Washington Concert Opera in “La Rodine”, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in “Harvey Milk”, the Tulsa Opera as Rinuccio in “Gianni Schicci” and Opera Omaha as Anthony in “Sweeney Todd.” Other notable recent appearances have included the Prince in “The Love for Three Oranges” at Opera Philadelphia’s Festival; Jonathan Dale in “Silent Night” at Utah Opera; Beppe in “I Pagliacci” at Opera Colorado; the title role of Bernstein’s “Candide” with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra and Des Moines Metro Opera; “Anna Bolena” at Canadian Opera Company; Frederic in “The Pirates of Penzance” and Lensky in “Eugene Onegin” at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Fenton in “Falstaff” at San Diego Opera and Lindoro in “L’italiana in Algeri” at the Portland Opera. A graduate of Patrick G. Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s professional artist-development program, he appeared in the house’s main productions of “Les Troyens,” “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “The Merry Widow,” “der Rosenkavalier,” “Capriccio,” “The Magic Victrola” and Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Holocaust opera “The Passenger." 

 

In concert, Johnson appeared as a soloist with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Schumann’s “Das Paradies und die Peri,” the Detroit Symphony for “Messiah,” “la Damnation de Faust” at the Grant Park Music Festival, Le Fils in “Les mamelles de Tiresias” with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 and a concert version of “Don Giovanni” with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, a performance of Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” as part of a Liederabend in Chicago, and various appearances in the Harris Theater’s Beyond the Aria series, the 125th Anniversary Gala for the Auditorium Theater and on WFMT radio as a part of the Ryan Opera Center Recital Series. 

 

Hailing from Macon, Georgia, Johnson holds a Master of Music and Professional Artist Certificate from the A.J. Fletcher Institute of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He also holds a Bachelor of Music from the Townsend School of Music at Mercer University.