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In the 2017/2018 season, following her performances of the same title role with Nashville Opera, Ms. Rowley returned to The Metropolitan Opera in their new production of Tosca where she presented a “magnificent” (ZealNYC) portrayal.
Read MoreMar | 18, 23, 26, 29
Apr | 2, 6, 2019
Tosca
The Metropolitan Opera
New York, NY
April | 11
with Fabio Luisi, conductor
Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Florence, Italy
MAY | 4, 2019
The Stonegate Mansion
Fort Worth, TX
MAY | 5, 2019
Fort Worth Opera
Fort Worth, TX
Jun | 29
Jul | 2, 4, 10, 13, 2019
Valentine
Semperoper Dresden
Dresden, Germany
April | 15, 18, 2020
Tosca
The Metropolitan Opera
New York, NY
April | 29
May | 2, 7, 2020
Musetta
The Metropolitan Opera
New York, NY
“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…
Read More…Jennifer Rowley, who made a suitably volatile diva, all petty jealousies, tempestuous outbursts and coy pieties in Act 1, (the comedy of the sexes was played to good effect), and in a very different way, tempestuous and passionate in the second and third acts, as avenger, lover and victim. I particularly liked the orchestra’s relationship with her voice: the gusts…
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