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Jennifer Holloway

About this Artist

The American singer Jennifer Holloway gained international attention in 2006 at the Santa Fe Opera singing the part of Le Prince Charmant in Massenet’s Cendrillon. Her success led to invitations to appear in leading opera houses in both the United States and Europe.

At the beginning of her career her repertoire was based on major roles by Mozart and Handel including Dorabella in Cosí fan tutte, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Idamante in Idomeneo, Irene in Tamerlano (Teatro Real Madrid, Los Angeles Opera), the title role in Serse and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (recently in Toronto). Further on she sang the Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia and the Temple Drake (Mrs. Gavin Stevens) in the world premiere of Oscar Strasnoy’s Requiem por una Monja (Theatro Colon Buenos Aires). In 2010 she gave her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Flora in Willy Decker's new production of La Traviata, where she also appeared in Don Carlos. In 2013 she made her debut at the Washington National Opera and at the English National Opera in London. She also 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), the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Bard Music Festival as Anne de Boleyne in Saint-Saëns Henry VIII and at the Chautauqua Music Festival in New York with her first Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier.

Jennifer Holloway’s career has been heading more and more into the soprano fach. At least since her very successful debut as Musetta in La Boheme at the ENO in London her future role choice is running in this direction, although she will also retain many of the roles of her former repertoire, especially those with a high tessitura. In July 2015 Jennifer Holloway will return to Bordeaux, where she will sing the part of Adalgisa in Bellini’s Norma for the first time. In the same role she will present herself in London next season. 2015/16 she will also be singing the part of Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte in Pittsburgh, amongst other engagements.

Jennifer Holloway also appears in various concert productions. A highlight was the world premiere of Frédéric Chaslins Love and a Question, which he composed for her. She has also formed a strong partnership with Jean-Christophe Spinosi and his Ensemble Matheus.