John Brancy

Grammy Award–winning baritone John Brancy is equally at home on the opera stage, in concert, and in recital.

This season, he returns to Opéra de Montréal in the title role of Don Giovanni, reprises his dual roles in George Benjamin’s Picture a Day Like This at Teatro di San Carlo, performs Brahms’s German Requiem with La Seine Musicale and the Insula Orchestra, and makes his role debut as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at Opéra national du Rhin.

In the 2024–25 season, Brancy made debuts at the Opéra Comique, Opéra national du Rhin, Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, and Tiroler Festspiele Erl. He also returned to the Bayerische Staatsoper in Weinberg’s Lady Magnesia, debuted as Marcello in La bohème at Opéra de Montréal, and appeared as a soloist in Carmina Burana with The Cleveland Orchestra.

Brancy’s collaborations have included conductors Lorenzo Viotti, Helmuth Rilling, James Gaffigan, and Ken-David Masur. He has headlined performances with leading orchestras and opera companies, such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Oper Frankfurt, and Glyndebourne Festival, among others. Brancy is also the official anthem singer for the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.