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Jennifer France

About this Artist

Winner of the 2018 Critics’ Circle Emerging Talent Award, British soprano Jennifer France was described in WhatsOnStage as the "living jewel in opera’s crown."

25/26 sees Jennifer sing Tytania in Peter Hall's production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Glyndebourne’s Autumn season. Jennifer will also return to the Royal Opera House, London to sing First Niece in Deborah Warner’s production of Peter Grimes and to Garsington to sing Cecily Cardew in Gerry Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest. On the concert stage, Jennifer joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Ed Gardner conducting Hans Abrahamsen’s Let me tell you, sings Ligeti’s Requiem firstly with Esa Pekka Salonen and the Orchestre de Paris and then at the Berwaldhallen and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Jennifer will also celebrate New Year’s concerts with Nil Venditti and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

A prolific contemporary artist, she has sung Gerald Barry’s The Eternal Recurrence with the Britten Sinfonia, which was recorded for Signum, and in the world premiere of Brett Dean’s In This Brief Moment with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Nick Collon. She made her BBC Proms debut in 2017 and Salzburg Festival debut in 2019 singing Pascal Dusapin’s Medeamaterial with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Last season, she made her debut at the Edinburgh International Festival with Hans Abrahamsen’s Let me tell you conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth and returned to the BBC Proms with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner for Ligeti’s Requiem. Contemporary opera includes the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen for Opera Holland Park, Alice in Gerald Barry’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, First Niece Peter Grimes, and Lessons in Love and Violence for The Royal Opera House, La Princesse in Philip Glass’ Orphée for English National Opera, and Ophelia in Brett Dean’s Hamlet for Glyndebourne On Tour.