Full Name
Dr. Tyler Nelson
Job Title
Associate Professor of Voice
Institution Name
Blair School of Music-Vanderbilt University
Speaker Bio
Dr. Tyler Nelson is a highly sought after soloist and teacher.
Recent engagements include performances with Irish National Opera as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Opera on the James as Alfredo in La Traviata, Opera Saratoga as Paul in Rocking Horse Winner and the Magician in The Consul, New Orleans Opera and Opera on the James as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Dayton Opera as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the Utah Symphony & Opera as Le Théière/Le Petit Vieillard in L’enfant et les Sortilèges, Opera Naples as Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Opera Omaha as Trin in La Fanciulla del West, Opera Tampa and Wide Open Opera in Ireland as Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and in Handel’s Messiah with Augustana College and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He has also given multiple performances with Le Festival Lyrique International de Belle-Île en Mer, including roles as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and as the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Mass in C and Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore and Requiem.
He has also appeared as a soloist on the stages of the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.
Mr. Nelson has received rave reviews from The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and many others. Of his performance in Giasone with Chicago Opera Theater, Mark Thomas Ketterson of Opera News commented, "Tyler Nelson was hilarious as a travesti Delfa, managing the passaggio of his tenor with notable skill and looking for all the world like Mollie Sugden's Mrs. Slocombe on Are You Being Served?" Venus Zarris of Chicago Stage Review stated, "Tyler Nelson commits comic operatic highway robbery…while simultaneously delivering some of the production’s most superb singing."
Recent engagements include performances with Irish National Opera as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Opera on the James as Alfredo in La Traviata, Opera Saratoga as Paul in Rocking Horse Winner and the Magician in The Consul, New Orleans Opera and Opera on the James as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Dayton Opera as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the Utah Symphony & Opera as Le Théière/Le Petit Vieillard in L’enfant et les Sortilèges, Opera Naples as Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Opera Omaha as Trin in La Fanciulla del West, Opera Tampa and Wide Open Opera in Ireland as Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and in Handel’s Messiah with Augustana College and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He has also given multiple performances with Le Festival Lyrique International de Belle-Île en Mer, including roles as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and as the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Mass in C and Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore and Requiem.
He has also appeared as a soloist on the stages of the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.
Mr. Nelson has received rave reviews from The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and many others. Of his performance in Giasone with Chicago Opera Theater, Mark Thomas Ketterson of Opera News commented, "Tyler Nelson was hilarious as a travesti Delfa, managing the passaggio of his tenor with notable skill and looking for all the world like Mollie Sugden's Mrs. Slocombe on Are You Being Served?" Venus Zarris of Chicago Stage Review stated, "Tyler Nelson commits comic operatic highway robbery…while simultaneously delivering some of the production’s most superb singing."
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