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Few things provide stronger motivation to make som

Few things provide stronger motivation to make something of yourself than a child.

Jack & Noa love you more than anything. ❤️🥰💪🤲

Recorded with the Ocean City Pops in Ocean City, NJ. A most beautiful place to make and experience music.

#singing #love #selfdiscovery #parenting #motivation #family #theatre

The Pickaxe by Rumi - interpreted by Coleman Barks

The Pickaxe by Rumi - interpreted by Coleman Barks and adapted by me for the recital Tenebre’s Tale. A powerful poem about the treasure that lies within all of us and the challenges we face to discover and accept it. Full text below:

Tear down this house. A hundred thousand new houses can be built from the transparent yellow gem buried beneath it,

and the only way to get to that is to do the work of demolishing and then digging under the foundations.

With that gem in hand all new construction will be done without effort.
And anyway, sooner or later this house will fall on its own.

The jewel treasure will be uncovered, but it won’t be yours then. The buried wealth is your pay for the doing the demolition, the pick and shovel work.

If you wait and just let it happen, you’d bite your hand and say, “I didn’t do as I knew I should have.” This is a rented house. You don’t own the deed.
You have a lease, and you’ve set up a little shop, where you barely make a living sewing patches on torn clothing.
Yet only a few feet underneath are two veins pure red and bright gold gem. Quick! Take the pickaxe and pry the foundation. You’ve got to quit this seamstress work.

What does the patch-sewing mean, you ask. Eating, drinking and sex. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn.

You patch it with food, and other restless ego-satisfactions. Rip up one board from the shop floor and look into the basement. You’ll see two glints in the dirt. - Rumi

#rumi #poetry #selfdiscovery #love #singing #psychoanalysis #freud

Being Alive from Sondheim’s Company. There are

Being Alive from Sondheim’s Company.

There are a few songs that, when I listen to them, bring me to deep emotional catharsis. This is one of them. Its lyrics, musical structure and dramatic arc join together to move me at the very core.

In darker moments of life, I listened (and sang along 🤣) to this song for inspiration and motivation. I would weep with emotion, feeling an intense desire to free myself from the things inside my mind that held me back from truly being myself.

This performance comes from the recital “Tenebre’s Tale: A Musical Journey Through Psychoanalysis”. I produced it in collaboration with The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and @avaopera

Keep your 👀 peeled for more clips from the show. Full video link is in the bio ❤️

#sondheim #companymusical #singing #recital #psychoanalysis #freud #confidence #love #selflove #musicistheanswer

Family throwback. It sounds trite but I couldn’t

Family throwback. It sounds trite but I couldn’t be more serious, love is the answer ❤️ @grammysgram.jmv ❤️ @jimmyis_james

Thanks for sharing the photo Doreen and mom! Much love.

#love #family #friends #throwback

Paradise. #mountains #nature #italy #alps #peacef

Paradise.

#mountains #nature #italy #alps #peaceful #fountain #life

Italia mi manchi 🇮🇹 This photo was taken in

Italia mi manchi 🇮🇹

This photo was taken in front of Teatro Angelo Mariani, in Sant’Agata Feltria. One of the most breathtakingly beautiful theaters I’ve ever seen.

#italy #emilioromagna #amore #theatre #music

Philly friends! This Thursday, join me for a solo

Philly friends! This Thursday, join me for a solo recital at @avaopera and take a deep dive into the inner world of John.

Music from across the genres, poetry by Rumi and original artworks—this won’t be your run of the mill classical recital. Trust me.

RSVP by using the link in my bio.

My sincere thanks to @avaopera for hosting this event and the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia for supporting its creation in so many ways.

#philly #phillymusic #recital #psychoanalysis #freud #emotions #feelings #music

Comment below! What’s your favorite song to list

Comment below! What’s your favorite song to listen to in the morning?

#classicalorchestra #band #explore #travel #international #worldwide #europe #USA #symphonymusic #westernmusic #symphonic #instrumental #morningmusic #morning #mountains #nature #bigsky #listenership #unite #together

Tonight, a dream came true. As a 16 year old boy

Tonight, a dream came true.

As a 16 year old boy I sat in the Metropolitan Opera for my first opera, La Boheme. I was mesmerized by the spectacle on stage, enchanted by the beauty of the music and moved by the heartbreaking emotion of the story. I saw myself up there, dreamed of playing Rodolfo—tonight that dream came true.

Thank you @intermountainopera for giving me this opportunity. Thank you @whyte_katherine for being such a generous colleague. Thank you @kennytheeoverton @kylewhitebaritone and @dr_jhae_zuhhsz for being such a beautiful friends. Thank you @creecarrico for showing what can be accomplished through glamour and grace. Thank you @michael.sakir for your sensitivity, strength and collaboration. Can’t wait for the next.

#laboheme #opera #dreamcometrue #perseverance #onthestage #grateful

Two amazing casts, a fantastic production team and

Two amazing casts, a fantastic production team and these mountains are making this, my first Rodolfo, a very special experience. @intermountainopera

#labohème #mountains #singing #italian #nature #beautifuldestinations

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Tenebre's Tale: A Musical Journey Through Psychoanalysis

John Viscardi performs Tenebre's Tale, a solo recital that chronicles his ten year journey in psychoanalysis through music and spoken word.

E lucevan le stelle

Tosca, Opera Carolina

Vittoria!

Tosca, Opera Carolina

Tower Scene

Pelléas et Mélisande

The Vagabond

Chapter 1 in The Songs of Travel by Vaughan Williams

Chanson Triste

John Viscardi performs Chanson Triste in NYC

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John Viscardi has moved audiences all over the world with his vocal beauty and dramatic intensity

John Viscardi, Tenor – Faust

John Viscardi – Tenor

John Viscardi – Tenor

John Viscardi, Tenor – Cosi fan tutte – Photo by Elise Bakk

John Viscardi – Tenor

John Viscardi, Tenor – The Juliet Letters – Photo by Cory Weaver

John Viscardi, Tenor

John Viscardi, Tenor – Cosi fan tutte – Photo by Elise Bakk

John Viscardi – Tenor

John Viscardi, Tenor

John Viscardi – Tenor – Photo by Arielle Doneson

John Viscardi, Tenor

John Viscardi, Tenor – Cyrano

John Viscardi – Tenor

John Viscardi, Tenor

John Viscardi – Tenor

John Viscardi, Tenor – The Juliet Letters – Photo by Cory Weaver

John Viscardi, Tenor – Nixon in China – Photo by Jessi Oliano

John Viscardi – Tenor

John Viscardi, Tenor – Nixon in China – Photo by Jessi Oliano

John Viscardi, Tenor – Faust

John Viscardi, Tenor

John Viscardi – Tenor – Photo by Arielle Doneson

John Viscardi, Tenor – Cosi fan tutte – Photo by Elise Bakk

John Viscardi, Tenor – Faust

John Viscardi – Tenor

John Viscardi, Tenor – Cyrano

John Viscardi – Tenor

John Viscardi, Tenor – La Boheme

John Viscardi, Tenor – La Boheme

John Viscardi, Tenor – Nixon in China – Photo by Jessi Oliano

John Viscardi, Tenor – Cosi fan tutte – Photo by Elise Bakk

John Viscardi, Tenor – Cyrano

John Viscardi, Tenor – La Boheme