John Matthew Myers has garnered acclaim for his warm tone, insightful and nuanced performance, depth, and range. Some of Myers’s opera roles include Mao in Nixon in China (Paris Opera with Gustavo Dudamel), Pollione in Norma (LA Opera), Der Tenor/Bacchus in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos (Teatro La Fenice), and Der Kaiser in Die Frau ohne Schatten (San Francisco Opera). For The Metropolitan Opera, he has covered roles in Britten’s Peter Grimes, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. He has also performed roles in concert with Seattle Opera and Ludovic Morlot, Opera Carlo Felice Genova with Fabio Luisi, and Zurich Opera.

Myers has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh and Grand Rapids Symphonies, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Following his performance at the Grant Park Music Festival, the Chicago Tribune wrote, “He astonished from his thrilling entrance . . . his voice a thing of poignance and power.” Myers won Third Prize and the Richard Tauber Prize for the best interpretation of Schubert Lieder at the 2022 Wigmore Hall Bollinger International Song Competition, and his critically acclaimed solo debut album with pianist Myra Huang was released in 2022.