Cranbrook Christmas Jazz: John Holiday

At Cranbrook Christmas Jazz we bring top jazz talent every year for a festive Christmas concert to celebrate this special time of year. This is your chance to see the outstanding countertenor John Holiday in a venue like never before. Grab some friends, get your tickets, and have an evening of festive fun! Want to hear more from John Holiday? Check out his NPR Tiny Desk Concert here and more of his other work below.

Countertenor John Holiday has established himself as "one of the finest countertenors of his generation" (Los Angeles Times). His voice has been praised as "a thing of astonishing beauty" (New Yorker), "arrestingly powerful, secure and dramatically high" (Wall Street Journal), and "timeless" (Washington Post).

Holiday's unique voice and powerful story have been featured in profiles in The New Yorker, CNN's Great Big Story, Los Angeles Times, and more. Highlights for Holiday's 2024-25 season include a debut in the role of Farnace in Mitridate, re di Ponto at Boston Lyric Opera, in a production by James Darrah. In March 2025, he will debut as the title role of Akhnaten in a new Barrie Kosky production of a work from Philip Glass's opera trilogy at Komische Oper Berlin.

Holiday will return to the Bayerische Staatsoper in two titles: Le Grand Macabre in October and Dido and Aeneas in July 2025, and will embark on a tour with The English Concert and Harry Bicket of Giulio Cesare in the role of Tolomeo at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Barbican, and more. He will perform alongside the San Francisco Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, and the Apollo Chamber Players, and perform a solo recital at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.

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