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John Relyea performed “Le Nozze di Figaro” by Mozart last year at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He will be returning to the city for a performance on March 9, 2010 at Carnegie Hall. This time he will sing withMariinsky Theatre Chorus, accompanied by the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra. The Mariinsky Theatre is also known as the Kirov Orchestra, and makes their home in Saint Petersburg.  This is a long running company that was founded during the times of Peter the Great, in the Eighteenth Century.  This is Russia’s oldest institutes of music and now they are the leading orchestras in the country of SaintPetersburg.

John Relyea was born in United States but grew up in Canada. Relyea began training at the age of seventeen.  Both of his parents were singers, his father Gary is a bass-baritone and is mother Anna is a soprano.  It was his parents with whom he received the first three years of formal training.  He has stated that he recently bought them a satellite radio that has a station that broadcasts the shows live from the Metropolitan Theatre, so that his parents could listen to his performances in order to critique him later.  They still influence his work a great deal.

He has performed in Figaro more than seventy times but he has stated that when a cast is as great as the one he is working with currently, the show feels as though he is doing if for the first time.  On the music of Mozart,Relyea says that the music has its own life, that its honest, natural and straightforward.  Much as in the way Shakespeare leads the players, Mozart’s music leads the players, and shows them wear to go naturally.  And as with the writings of Shakespeare, the more you hear Mozart the more you become surprised by something new you have not heard before.  So next year book a hotel, stop at one of the cities best restaurants, New York City has many to choose from, and head to Carnegie Hall to experience the amazing talent of JohnReylea and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra.