John Callison is thrilled to be joining Rhymes With Opera by playing Don for their production of Heartbreak Express. Mr. Callison’s performances in the last year include Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro (dell’Arte Opera Ensemble), Hortensius in La fille du regiment (Martina Arroyo Prelude to Performance), Moralès in Carmen (New York Opera Exchange), Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (Opera at USC), Falstaff in At the Boar’s Head (Opera at USC), Tom/John in The Face on the Barroom Floor (Chelsea Opera), The Drunken Poet in The Fairy Queen (dell’Arte Opera Ensemble), and Marchese d’Obigny in La Traviata (M. Arroyo P. to P.) John recently received his Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music where he performed Donald Gallup in The Mother of Us All, and was in Thaïs and Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny as well. John is a student of Mark Oswald.