American tenor Kelly W. Burns is an active performer of opera, musical theater, recital and concert works throughout North America in vocal repertoire spanning from Claudio Monteverdi to living composers. Among his stage credits are leading and supporting roles from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Donizetti's Elisir d'amore, Verdi's Rigoletto, Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel, and the tenor solos in Handel's Messiah, Bach's B Minor Mass and Magnificat, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Haydn's Creation, Mozart's Requiem, Mass in C Minor, and Coronation Mass, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. He has sung with opera companies and orchestras such as the Chautauqua Opera, Opera Roanoke, Memphis Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Little Orchestra Society of New York, the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Charleston Chamber Opera, Opera Project Columbus, and the Oxford Shakespeare Festival. Kelly performs with LancasterChorale, the premiere professional choir in central Ohio.