Jennifer Holloway
Worldwide representation
In recent years, American soprano Jennifer Holloway has established herself internationally as one of the leading sopranos in the dramatic repertoire.
In the new season, Jennifer Holloway will return to the Bavarian State Opera as Senta (Der fliegende Holländer). At the Hamburg State Opera she will make her role debut as Fidelio-Leonore and can be heard as Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes). Under Kirill Petrenko, she will sing Chrysothemis (Elektra) in Bergen. In Leipzig, she makes a guest appearance as Chrysothemis. Houston Opera presents the sought-after artist in one of her parade roles of Salome. In Liege, she will sing Wagner's Wesendoncklieder.
Highlights of recent seasons include Salome at the Vienna and Berlin State Operas and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Chrysothemis, Tannhäuser-Elisabeth and her role debut as Senta at the Hamburg State Opera, Cassandre (Les Troyens) at the Munich Opera Festival, Sieglinde (Die Walküre) in concert with the Orchestre de Paris under Jaap van Zweden and at the Vienna Konzerthaus under Joana Mallwitz, the title role of César Franck's Hulda in Paris, Grete in a new production of Schreker's Der ferne Klang at Oper Frankfurt, her role debut as Lohengrin-Elsa at Oper Leipzig, the Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos) at Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Cassandre and Salome at Semperoper Dresden, her debut as Sieglinde at Staatsoper Hamburg and Salome in Bilbao and Atlanta.
Jennifer Holloway began her career as a mezzo-soprano with the great mezzo roles of Mozart and Handel such as Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Idamante (Idomeneo), Irene (Tamerlano) at houses such as Teatro Real Madrid or Los Angeles Opera, in addition to the title role in Serse, but also Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at Canadian Opera Toronto. She has made guest appearances at the Glyndebourne Festival in a new production of Hansel and Gretel (Hansel) and Falstaff (Meg Page), at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse (Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie), at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, at the Bard Music Festival as Anne de Boleyne in Saint-Saëns Henry VIII, and at the Chautauqua Music Festival New York, where she sang her first Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier. She has also enjoyed great success as the Komponist, Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma in Bordeaux and London, and as Giovanna (Anna Bolena) in Lisbon.
In concert, she was heard in Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and in Mozart's Mass in C minor under Bertrand de Billy in Dresden, among others.
2023/24
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