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John Relyea
John Relyea (born 1972 in Toronto) is a Canadian bass-baritone opera singer and winner of the 2003 Richard Tucker Award.
He was born in 1972 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Gary Relyea, one of Canada's well-known opera singers, and a native Estonian Anna Tamm-Relyea, also a professional singer.
John Relyea is a 1998 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He studied with his father, with renowned opera bass Jerome Hines, and with
He worked with director John Sturges as assistant director on the 1959 World War II film "Never So Few" and the 1960 western, "The Magnificent Seven." He also worked as an Assistant Director for John Wayne on "The Alamo" and Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins on "West Side Story." Wise was so impressed with Relyea he offered him a job running his production company as a partner but Relyea felt indebted to Sturges and joined his production company, Alpha Corp., in 1961. There, he worked