Jennifer Rowley

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. She has appeared at The Metropolitan Opera as Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac, the title roles of Tosca and Adriana Lecouvreur, Leonora in Il Trovatore and Musetta in La Boheme; at Opernhaus Zurich and Opera Philadelphia as Amelia Grimaldi in Simon Boccanegra, at the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Colon and Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in the title role of Aida; Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Staatsoper Berlin, Opera National de Paris and Opera de Rouen in her signature role of Leonora in Il Trovatore; the Teatro Regio Torino in Torino and National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China as Minnie in La Fanciulla del West; at the Semperoper Dresden as both Tosca and Valentine in Les Huguenots; at Teatro Verdi Salerno in the title role of Manon Lescaut; at Teatro Carlo Felice and Palm Beach Opera in the title role of Madama Butterfly; the National Theatre Prague as Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Musetta, among many others. On the concert stage, Rowley has performed concert performances of Tosca 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 in Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center and New York City’s Carnegie Hall, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. She was the soprano soloist for Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, “Symphony of a Thousand” with maestro Fabio Luisi at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, was the soprano soloist with St. Cecilia Chorus and Orchestra in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at Carnegie Hall as well as with Valentina Peleggi and the Richmond Symphony and Tove in Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado São Paulo.

An avid mentor to young artists, Rowley is the founder and director of Aria Bootcamp, a 501(c)3 educational charity training program focusing on world class training of emerging professional operatic artists. She holds an annual Artist in Residence position at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory and is currently on voice faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music. She is highly sought after for her seminar series and masterclasses across the globe. A winner of many international competitions, she was awarded the Richard Tucker Career Grant, was a top prize winner of the Lucia Albanese Puccini Foundation, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the Opera Index Awards and was a district winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Consul Awards.