Jennifer Rowley
Soprano

American soprano Jennifer Rowley is acclaimed worldwide for her unforgettable voice and remarkable stage presence in a richly varied repertoire that spans many of opera’s greatest heroines. In recent seasons, she has appeared at The Metropolitan Opera as Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac, Tosca, Adriana Lecouvreur, Leonora in Il Trovatore, and Musetta in La Bohème, among many others.

On the concert stage, Ms. Rowley has performed Tosca in concert with the Israel Philharmonic, led by Maestro Zubin Mehta. She was the soprano soloist in Beethoven's colossal Missa Solemnis with The Philadelphia Orchestra, both at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and Carnegie Hall in New York City, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. She was also the soprano soloist for Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand with Maestro Fabio Luisi at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the St. Cecilia Chorus and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and Tove in Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo.

An avid mentor to young artists, Ms. Rowley recently founded her own summer festival, Jennifer Rowley’s Aria Bootcamp. She has been an Artist in Residence at Baldwin Wallace University, Fort Worth Opera, and the International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia and is highly sought after for her seminars and masterclasses. A winner of numerous international competitions, she was awarded the Richard Tucker Career Grant and was a top prize winner of the Lucia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, and the Opera Index Awards. She was also a district winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards.