JENNIFER HARRIS      RETURN TO HOME PAGE         

                        
                       Soprano

American soprano Jennifer Harris has emerged as one of the most exciting dramatic sopranos singing a repertoire ranging from Lady Macbeth and Turandot to the heroines of Strauss and Wagner. Upcoming engagements include Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera for Philadelphia’s Center City Opera Theater, Clothilde in Norma for he Chautauqua Opera and a concert of Wagner and Strauss for the Artist Series of Sarasota. Most recently, Ms. Harris made a last minute, critically acclaimed début as Puccini's Tosca with Knoxville Opera. She created the part of The Whore in the premiere of Lowell Liebermann's Picture of Dorian Gray and covered the title role in Tosca with Philadelphia's Center City Opera Theater. She recently received the top scholarship from the prestigious Arleen Auger Memorial Fund and was a finalist 2008 for the Bel Canto Scholarship Foundation
Ms. Harris appeared with the Miami Lyric Opera where she sang in two gala concerts, performing arias and duets from Otello, Un ballo in maschera, La Forza del Destino, and Suor Angelica. She sang Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with the Seagle Music Colony where her performance was deemed "remarkable" by music critics. Jennifer Harris received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan. While attending UM, she appeared as Magda in Menotti's The Consul, as The Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, as Mimì in La Bohème, and in the title role of Maria Golovin. She also sang the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Arbor Opera Theater, and presented several recitals under the auspices of Mr. Katz's studio, singing diverse song literature from Schoenberg, Strauss, Heggie, and many others.
She has performed numerous recital programs in the United States and several times in concert with Florida's Venice Symphony.


OPERATIC REPERTOIRE (prepared):


Beethoven FIDELIO Leonore
Giordano ANDREA CHENIER Maddalena
Mascagni CAVELLERIA RUSTICA Santuzza
Menotti THE CONSUL Magda
MARIA GOLOVIN Maria
Mozart DON GIOVANNI Donna Elvira
IDOMENEO Elletra
Ponchielli LA GIOCONDA Gioconda
Puccini TOSCA Tosca
TURANDOT Turandot
Strauss ARIADNE AUF NAXOS Ariadne
ELEKTRA Chrysothemis
DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN Dyer’s Wife
Verdi UN BALLO IN MASCHERA Amelia
DON CARLO Elisabetta
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Leonora
NABUCCO Abigaille
MACBETH Lady Macbeth
Wagner DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER Senta
LOHENGRIN Elizabeth
TANNHAUSER Elsa
THE RING Sieglinde, Brunnhilde

PRESS ACCLAIM:

As Magda in The Consul:

“Harris, a fine singer, gained even more confidence as the show went on, building through emotional scenes at the consulate where she is faced with ever-increasing impersonality, finally exploding with emotion during the play's last climactic moment."
Ann Arbor News

As Flora Tosca in Tosca:
“Fortunately, Floria Tosca in this production suffers no such indignities. In fact, soprano Jennifer Harris, who hired on as the understudy, only to be pushed into her first starring role when Rosemary Musoleno became too ill to sing, deserved more of the roars at the curtain calls.
If for no other reason, you shouldn't miss Harris' marvelous voice, which she used to full effect in trying circumstances. For what her Tosca is lacking in the hell-hath-no-fury like the jealousies and temper tantrums of a celebrated opera singer, or the seductiveness, or the take-charge stage presence, Harris made up for with glorious singing.”
Knoxville News Sentinel