John Easterlin is an American operatic tenor who has sung at leading opera houses in the United States and internationally, specialising in character and Spieltenor roles.
[5] Easterlin's debut at the Metropolitan Opera came in 2004 when he appeared in a new production of Richard Strauss' Salome with Karita Mattila, and he has since returned there for productions of Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier (2005), Prokofiev's The Gambler (2008), the revival of Salome (2008) which was also screened on the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series, Elektra, opposite Susan Bullock and Deborah Voigt (2009) and Khovanshchina and The Makropoulos Case (2012).
[6] In 2008 he also performed the role of Jack O'Brien in Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny with Los Angeles Opera, sharing the stage with Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald, in a production conducted by James Conlon.
[7] He made his European debut in 2008 as 'The Hunchback' in Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Paris Opera where he returned in 2010 as Squeak in Billy Budd.
In previous years, he has appeared as Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos with the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv (2007),[8] The Captain in Wozzeck at Japan's Saito Kinen Festival in a production conducted by Seiji Ozawa (2004), and Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Opéra de Québec (2003).