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In the 2019/20 season, Jennifer Rowley adds two Verdi roles to her growing list of repertoire and she makes two highly anticipated house debuts: first at the National Theatre Prague as Amelia from Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, and then at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in the title role of Verdi’s Aida. She returns to the Metropolitan Opera to reprise two of her signature Puccini roles: the title role of Tosca, and Musetta in La Bohème. She also sings Tosca for Opera San Antonio, making her house debut.
Read MoreSEP | 12, 14, 2019
Tosca
Opera San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
OCT | 25, 2019
Toledo Opera
Toledo, OH
Oct | 31
Nov | 2, 2019
Amelia
National Theatre Prague
Prague, Czech Republic
NOV | 15, 2019
with Ramón Tebar, piano
Opera Naples
Naples, FL
Jan | 14, 17, 20, 23, 28, 31
Feb | 2, 2020
Aida
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Barcelona, Spain
APR | 15, 18, 2020
Tosca
The Metropolitan Opera
New York, NY
APR | 29
MAY | 2, 7, 2020
Musetta
The Metropolitan Opera
New York, NY
“American soprano Jennifer Rowley embodied a Tosca flooded by a huge spectrum of emotions, from the playfulness of diva attitudes in the first act to her murderess fury in the second act and finally the complexities of the third act. Mme. Rowley’s voice has a fast flutter that served to create an exaggerated singerly presence for Tosca. She has a…
Read More“Vocally Rowley was in fine form throughout the night, especially during her arias. “Io son l’umile ancella” was marked by a seemingly endless vocal line supporting by virtuosic breath support. Every single phrase in the aria’s opening sections felt like one connected line, growing and building toward the climactic final lines. The final phrases were potent in how long Rowley…
Read More“A partire dalla Leonora di Jennifer Rowley, dalla voce dal timbro personale e dotata del peso ideale per il personaggio, che usa a fini espressivi persino la lieve disomogeneità tra i registri, tra un centro screziato da un accenno di vibrato stretto e un registro acuto sicuro, luminoso e intenso. Discreta anche nei passaggi belcantistici, il soprano statunitense (già attiva al…
Read More“In the title role, Jennifer Rowley was a force of nature from beginning to end. In her first appearance, Medea learns that she has been cast aside by Giasone for Creusa, daughter of the king of Corinto. Scorned and indignant, Rowley’s nascent conflict is captured by the ambivalence of the recitative accompagnato before she launches into a cavatina, where she…
Read More“Jennifer Rowley surprises by making an acclaimed debut on the Opéra Bastille stage, and as she explained in the interview she gave us, her Leonora is – at the beginning of the plot – a very young a passionate and voluptuous girl, a design that holds true thanks to the freshness of the singer’s youthful tone, her brilliant sound and…
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