John Treleaven studied in London at the College of Music with William Lloyd Webber, among others, and at the London Opera Centre, Covent Garden as well as in Naples under Maestro Campanino. At first, he sang primarily in his home country at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Welsh National Opera, the Scottish National Opera and the English National Opera, where he learned numerous roles such as the Prince in Rusalka. At the Edinburgh Festival, he sang the role of Hans in The Bartered Bride, as well as Radames, Erik, Florestan and was heard in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. Further guest performances took him to the Adelaide Festival, the Taormina Festival, to Bologna, Amsterdam, Paris, New York …
In 1991, he made his highly acclaimed German debut at the Mannheim National Theatre as Peter Grimes, a role he has since sung at the Hamburg State Opera, in Bremen, Frankfurt and Genoa, at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg (directed by Alfred Kirchner). His repertoire also includes roles such as Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos, Canio in Pagliacci, Calaf in Turandot, Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West and Hermann in Pique Dame. At the Berlin State Opera he sang Pollione in Norma’ at the Teatro Real Madrid he performed Menelas in Die Ägyptische Helena and in Helsinki he sang the Emperor in Die Frau ohne Schatten.
