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 James N Kryshak (tenor) a native of Baldwinsville, NY made his professional opera debut in 2008 as Don Ottavio in Raylynmor Opera’s production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Other opera roles include: Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Nanki-Poo in The Mikado, Camille in The Merry Widow, Frederik in Pirates of Penzance, and Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande. A winner in both the District and Regional levels of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2008, James will sing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera as a National Semi-Finalist in February 2009.
James graduated with a BA in Music and German from Elmhurst College (Elmhurst, IL) in 2006. Currently he is a MM candidate in Opera Performance at the University of Wisconsin Madison where he studies with Julia Faulkner (MONC Grand Finalist 1985) as a recipient of the Voice Excellence Wisconsin Distinguished Fellowship. Further studies have included two years of vocal study in Vienna with Michele Friedman , as well as the Tyrolean Opera Program under the direction of Elizabeth Bachman in the summer of 2006.
While in Austria, James was a Finalist in the Ferruccio Tagliavini International Vocal Competition in Deutschlandsberg (April 2005) as well as a Semi-Finalist in the Klassik Mania Competition in Vienna (July 2005).
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