Biography

Jon Janacek is a member of the HGO Chorus. This season at HGO, Janacek is the Tenor Solo in Breaking the Waves. He previously performed with HGO as Registrar in Madame Butterfly (2024, 2015) and Giuseppe in La traviata (2017, 2022). Other past roles include Canio in Pagliacci, Rodolfo in La bohème, and Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos as a young artist with Kingwood Summer Opera; Jenik in concert for The Bartered Bride as a vocal fellow at Music Academy of the West in 2016; Bacchus with the Berlin Opera Academy in 2017; and excerpts of the title role in Lohengrin in 2018 and the role of Erik in The Flying Dutchman in 2019, both for the Wagner Institute of the Miami Music Festival. In 2020 Janacek participated in Vegas City Opera’s film, The Ring Vegas, performing the four lead tenor roles. He returned to The Wagner Institute, Miami Music Festival, in June 2022 to sing Loge in Das Rheingold. He has been a participant of the American Wagner Project and a sponsored grant recipient from The Wagner Society of Washington, DC. He returned to Vegas City Opera in November of 2021 as Rodolfo for La bohème and in March 2023 to sing Siegmund in Die Walküre. An experienced concert artist, Janacek has been a featured soloist in performances of several sacred oratorios and has appeared with symphonies and orchestras across Texas. In May 2024, he performed the role of Siegmund in a concert performance of Die Walküre Act 1 at the SAS Performing Arts Program (New York). Future engagements include a return to SAS for Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and the role of Lord Chancellor (cover) in Iolanthe with the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston.