Jewish-American tenor Elias Berezin is a California native. Based in Los Angeles, he has sung with organizations all around the state specializing in operatic and concert works.
The upcoming season sees Elias travel to China on tour with the Hollywood Concert Orchestra. This season, he returns to Guild Opera Company for role debuts as Don José in Carmen and Macduff in Macbeth. Elias furter debuts with LA Opera Connects, bringing opera to various high schools throughout the SoCal area and returns to Music at Westwood to sing the tenor solos in Messiah. The spring also sees a three-performance recital tour entitled Growing Up, featuring works by Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Strauss, and the epic Vaughan Williams cycle Songs of Travel.
Elias finished the '23/'24 season with a debut at Mission Opera singing the role of Danilo in The Merry Widow and a return to Soli Deo Gloria for performances of the Lord Nelson Mass, followed by his second season at the Boston Wagner Institute as a young artist.
Recent operatic highlights include Luigi in Il Tabarro and Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte with Guild Opera, Eisenstein and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus with Pacific Lyric Association, and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Landmark Opera. A proponent of new music, Berezin created leading roles as Autumn in Joseph-Nathaniel Cuenca's SCHISM at UCR Arts, and The Inventor in Ian Dicke's ROMAN with Synchromy.
On the concert stage, Berezin has sung tenor solos in Handel's Messiah and Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem with Music at Westwood; Mozart's Coronation Mass, Messiah, Mozart's Requiem, and Haydn's The Creation with the Palisades Symphony; and in concerts of arias with Opera Italia.
Elias is a recipient of grant support from Opera Buffs, and was a finalist in the Redlands Bowl Young Artist Competition. He has appeared as a young artist with the Boston Wagner Institute, Source Song Festival, Songfest, and the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. He holds an M.M. from the University of Redlands, a B.M. from UC Irvine, and maintains an active studio.