John Villemaire teaches Voice and Piano, with a focus on power performance and audition techniques. John, a licensed educator, frequents as a soloist, and grew up singing pop, musical theatre, rock and R&B genres. John has had experience teaching all age levels, encourages all of his students to embark on the journey to discovering their own voice, and believes most people are able to sing. Many of his students have achieved success in being cast in regional musical theatre companies, received callbacks for Broadway productions, championed solo competitions, received superior ratings for state-adjudicated solo contests, and auditioned successfully for performing ensembles, musicals, and collegiate music programs.
As The Astrologer in The Golden Cockerel, NYC 2017
John was hailed by Opera News (Metropolitan Opera publication) for possessing “the most musical and stylistic sophistication onstage, taking everything...as Rossini would have expected, ” John Villemaire, tenor, most recently stepped in on a week's notice to perform the title role of Le Comte Ory with Opera Company of Brooklyn. John made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 2014. Credits have included Don Ramiro (Prince), (La Cenerentola- Cinderella) - Opera New Jersey and Opera Columbus; Faust with CSO orchestra, Giannetto in Rossini’s La gazza ladra -Bronx Opera; Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville - Opera of Southern Maryland, of which he recently covered in Boheme Opera NJ's recent production. John's concert solo performances have encompassed Mozart's Davidde Penitente and Bethulia Liberata, and Rossini's Messa di Ravenna and Messa di Gloria and his appearances with Hunterdon Symphony include the Tenor Soloist in Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ as well as Orff's Carmina Burana.
John was presented by American tenor Fred Cushman as a two-time recipient of the Lynne Cushman Award, and a finalist in the New York Lyric Opera Theatre Competition John is featured in an indie short-film named As Constant as The Northern Star, starring Lynne Cohen and directed by award-winning director Frank Solorzano. Upcoming solo engagements include The Astrologer in Rimsky-Korsakov's Golden Cockerel with New Opera NYC, Bastienin Mozart's first Singspiel Bastien und Bastienne with Garden State Opera, Tour de Force Concert with Boheme Opera, and Tenor Soloist in Hawes' Archangel Suite.
Mr. Villemaire also has served the community by providing educational music/theatre outreach for organizations such as The Boys and Girls Club of Trenton, the Newark Public School District, as well as the Princeton Hun School. John received his bachelor degree in Voice Performance and Music Education, and enjoys traveling and playing soccer in his free time.
As Ferrando in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, New Brunswick 2017
Instruments & Styles
Voice.
Styles: Classical, Musical Theatre, Pop
In Concert at Carnegie Hall, NYC
Reviews
“The stratospheric high notes that Rimsky-Korsakov gave the Astronomer held no terrors for tenor John Villemaire.”
Rick Perdian, SEENANDHEARD-INTERNATIONAL.COM, 2017
“Bel canto tenor John Villemaire dealt very capably with the high-flying ... challenges of the narrating Astrologer; he enacted an elderly character credibly until some rowdy colleagues knocked off his hood, revealing him as quite young.”
David Shengold, OPERA NEWS, 2017
“The part of the Astrologer is written for a voice called “tenor altino” — a very high lyric which shifts... John Villemaire made the part strangely appealing.”
Steve Cohen, DC METRO ARTS, 2017
In Concert at Carnegie Hall, NYC
"...John Villemaire added a well-sung Astrologer..."
Roberto Lombardo- LOMBARDO ASSOCIATES, 2017
“The rest of the voices were young and promising. John Villemaire smoothly managed the tricky range of the Astrologer, moving from lyric tenor...with ease.”
Eli Jacobson, GAY CITY NEWS, 2017
“In the tenor altino role of The Astrologer, John Villemaire's reedy tone was just right.”
VOCE DI MECHE, May 2017
As The Astrologer in The Golden Cockerel, NYC 2017
“As Ninetta’s beloved Giannetto, agile-voiced John Villemaire showed the most musical and stylistic sophistication onstage, taking almost everything…as Rossini would have expected.”
David Shengold, OPERA NEWS, 2013
“The demanding part of Giannetto…requiring considerable coloratura facility, and a high D. John Villemaire had a pleasant timbre.”
OPERAOBSESSION.COM, 2013
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