Tenor John Zuckerman began his career primarily as a bel canto specialist, making his early and important debuts in that high-lying, virtuosic repertoire, including roles in Rossini&rsquos Cenerentola, The Barber of Seville , La Scala di Seta, Il Viaggio a Reims, and Otello, Bellini’s Puritani, and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, The Elixir of Love, and the Daughter of the Regiment.
Since coming to Austria and Germany, his repertoire has greatly expanded, from the early-Baroque to pieces premiered just in the last five years, representing a range of composers from Monteverdi to Turnage and Vivaldi to Wagner.
His 2012 debut as Arnold in Rossini’s William Tell earned praised from Opernglas: “John Zuckerman sang the role of Arnold Melchtal credibly and confidently, with slender, elegant
