John Relyea (born 1972[1] in Toronto) is a Canadian-American operatic bass.
He was born in 1972 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,[2] to American-born Gary Relyea and Estonian mother Anna Tamm-Relyea.
Relyea attended the Curtis Institute of Music vocal program in Philadelphia.
After attending the Curtis Institute he continued his training as an apprentice in the San Francisco Opera's Adler Fellowship.
Throughout his career he has been renowned for interpretations of the role of Figaro in Le Nozze de Figaro, Mephisto in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust and Gounod’s Faust, King Marke in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, and the title role of Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle.