John-Joseph Haney, a Chesapeake, Virginia native, is a recent graduate of The Cleveland Institute of Music, where he earned both his Master’s degree in Voice and a Post-Master’s Graduate Diploma. He completed his undergraduate studies at Mannes College of Music in New York City and is also a graduate of The Governor’s School for the Arts. From 2022–2024, Mr. Haney was a Shari Bierman Young Artist Fellow with The Cleveland Orchestra, making his debut as Postiglione in La Fanciulla del West under the baton of Maestro Franz Welser-Möst. For the 2025–2026 season, he joins St. Petersburg Opera and Apollo’s Fire Orchestra as a young artist.
He has performed with numerous opera companies nationally and internationally, including St. Petersburg Opera, Virginia Opera, The Cleveland Orchestra, Opera Steamboat, Opera on the Avalon, Apollo’s Fire, Teatro Nuovo, Mannes Opera, and Cleveland Institute of Music Opera.
His past roles include Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Don Basilio and Don Curzio (Le nozze di Figaro), Paolino (Il matrimonio segreto), Henrik (A Little Night Music), Anthony (Sweeney Todd), Little Bat (Susannah), Commissioner (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Le Doyen (Cendrillon), Physician/Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher), Soldier #1 (All Is Calm), and tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem.
In the past season, Haney premiered two new works—Welcome to Madness and Pay No Heed—and recently made his European role debut as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Estates Theatre in Prague with The Czech National Opera.