Russian-American baritone John Arlievsky “not only has a pleasing and expressive voice, but also excels as a storyteller” (David Rice, Classical Source). He returns to Tanglewood Music Festival this summer as a second year Vocal Fellow, where programming will include chamber, recital, and orchestral soloist appearances, with repertoire spanning from J.S. Bach to George Crumb and all in-between. John is in the voice studio of Gerald Martin Moore and in the midst of the MM degree program at Yale Opera, where in the 2025-26 season he will sing Schaunard in La bohème, and Guglielmo in an exerpt from Cosi fan tutte, and where the 24-25 season saw him as Tobias in Rossini’s La Cambiale di matrimonio, Bustamente in Masanet’s La Navarraise, Bertran in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Fitzroy in the premier of Darwin en Patagonia, in recital (including premiering a piece setting journal entries and stories written by his older brother when he was in the first grade), and in excerpted acts from Le Nozze di Figaro, Florencia en el Amazonas, and La Boheme. Recent highlights also include concerts with the Washington Chamber Orchestra, productions with Peabody Opera Theatre as Pa Zegner in Proving Up and in the title role of Don Giovanni, and artist residencies with Denyce Graves Foundation and The Castleton Festival. John began voice study with Sharon Sweet at Westminster Choir College while pursuing majors in piano and composition before honing focus on singing, finishing undergraduate study in the voice studio of Randall Scarlata at Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University.