Jennifer Holloway

Worldwide representation

In recent years, the American soprano Jennifer Holloway has established herself internationally as one of the leading sopranos in the youthful dramatic repertoire.

Jennifer Holloway will ring in Nora Schmid's new artistic directorship at the Semperoper Dresden with Senta (Der fliegende Holländer). She will return to the Hamburg State Opera as Chrysothemis (Elektra). She will make her house debut at the Zurich Opera House as Leonore (Fidelio). The Vienna State Opera will present Jennifer Holloway as Salome. At the Frankfurt Opera, she will make her role debut as Kundry (Parsifal) in a new production under Thomas Guggeis. She will also sing the soprano part in Beethoven's 9th Symphony under Eun Sun Kim in San Francisco and Saint-Saens' L' Ancetre Nunciata in Monte Carlo.

Highlights of recent seasons include Salome at the State Operas in Vienna and Berlin and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Chrysothemis, Tannhäuser-Elisabeth and her role debuts as Sieglinde (Walküre), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), Fidelio-Leonore and Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes) at the Hamburg State Opera, Cassandre (Les Troyens) and Senta at the Bavarian State Opera, Sieglinde 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 the Frankfurt Opera, her role debut as Lohengrin-Elsa at the Leipzig Opera, Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Cassandre in Les Troyens and Salome at the Semperoper Dresden.

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) and Irene (Tamerlano) at the Teatro Real Madrid and Los Angeles Opera. She sang the title role in Serse, but also Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Canadian Opera Toronto. She has appeared at the Glyndebourne Festival in a new production of Hänsel und Gretel (Hänsel) and Falstaff (Meg Page), at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse (Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie), at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, at the Bard Music Festival as the title role in Hippolyte et Aricie, 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 Rosenkavalier. She has also enjoyed great success as the Komponist and Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma in Bordeaux and London and as Giovanna (Anna Bolena) in Lisbon.

In concert, she has appeared in Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and Mozart's Mass in C minor under Bertrand de Billy in Dresden, as well as several performances of Wagner's Wesendoncklieder.

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