Timothy Fallon

Tenor Timothy Fallon has a large repertory extending from Mozart to Schoenberg and Kurt Weill. He has been active in Germany and Austria as well as in his native U.S. Fallon was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1980. He attended the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, majoring in music and earning a bachelor's degree in 2003. Fallon went on to Binghamton University for a master's degree, graduating in 2005. While he was there, he made his professional debut at Binghamton's Tri-Cities Opera, appearing as Tonio in Donizetti's La fille du régiment. Fallon rounded out his education at the Juilliard Opera Center in New York from 2005 to 2007. In 2007, Fallon became house lyric tenor at Germany's Oper Leipzig, appearing in a variety of roles that included Narciso in Rossini's Il turco in Italia, Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Der Sänger in Schoenberg's Von heute auf morgen. He participated in many other projects while living in Europe, including a 2013 production of Wagner's Rienzi at the Bayreuther Festspiele, conducted by Christian Thielemann (he played Baroncelli), and the widely presented Wertheriade, a pastiche opera of little-known bel canto arias created expressly for him. He collaborated with Leipzig's 900-year-old Thomanerchor on a tour that included Hong Kong. Fallon has also been active as a song recitalist and won the 2013 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in London. He appeared on several Wagner opera recordings conducted by Marek Janowski during this period. Fallon moved back to the U.S. in the mid-2010s, and he made his recording debut on the BIS label in 2017 with the album Liszt: 15 Songs, accompanied by Ammiel Bushakevitz. Fallon has named soprano Marilyn Horne as a mentor, and he appeared at the 2017 Marilyn Horne Song Celebration at Carnegie Hall. Fallon has continued to perform at major venues in the U.S., Europe, and Israel, where he toured under the auspices of the "Israeli Schubertiade." He earned a Grammy Award for his role in Richard Danielpour's Passion of Yeshua, which was performed at the Oregon Bach Festival, at the University of California at Los Angeles, and with the Buffalo Philharmonic, and was recorded for the Naxos label in 2020. Fallon returned on BIS in 2022 with the album Crepuscolo: Songs by Ottorino Respighi.
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