The gifted American tenor, Jon Garrison, is a favourite of many of the world's distinguished conductors. At the Metropolitan Opera he was Cassio in Otello, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Romeo in Roméo et Juliette, von Eisenstein in Strauss's Die Fledermaus, and Ottavio in Don Giovanni. His European engagements have included the title role in Idomeneo with the Garsington Opera in Surrey, Adolar in Weber's Euryanthe with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London, and Birtwistle's Mask of Orpheus and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and with von Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra. Other important engagements have explored his extensive, varied repertoire in a busy schedule of international appearances in opera and in the concert hall. Jon Garrison sang in the world premières of Stewart Copeland's Holy Blood, Crescent Moon for Cleveland Opera, Jay Reise's Rasputin with New York City Opera, and Hugo Weisgall's The Gardens of Adonis for Opera Omaha. He participated in a tribute to Gian Carlo Menotti with the Little Orchestra Society at Lincoln Center and appeared in Claude Baker's Into the Sun with Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony. He performed Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers with the London Sinfonietta and his Kammermusik with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sheng's Songs of Majnun for New York Chamber
