Jennifer Holloway

In recent years, American soprano Jennifer Holloway has established herself internationally as one of the leading sopranos in the dramatic repertoire.

In the 2023/24 season, Jennifer Holloway returned to the Bavarian State Opera as Senta (Der fliegende Holländer). At the Hamburg State Opera she made her role debut as Leonore (Fidelio) and can be heard as Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes). Under Kirill Petrenko, she sang Chrysothemis (Elektra) in Bergen. In Leipzig, she made a guest appearance as Chrysothemis. Houston Opera presents the sought-after artist in one of her parade roles of Salome. 

Highlights of recent seasons include Salome at the Vienna and Berlin State Operas and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Chrysothemis, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) and her role debut as Senta at the Hamburg State Opera, Cassandre (Les Troyens) at the Munich Opera Festival, Sieglinde (Die Walküre) in concert with the Orchestre de Paris under Jaap van Zweden and at the Vienna Konzerthaus under Joana Mallwitz, the title role of César Franck’s Hulda in Paris, Grete in a new production of Schreker’s Der ferne Klang at Oper Frankfurt, her role debut as Elsa (Lohengrin) at Oper Leipzig.

Jennifer Holloway began her career as a mezzo-soprano with the great mezzo roles of Mozart and Handel. She has made guest appearances at the Glyndebourne Festival in a new production of Hansel and Gretel (Hansel) and Falstaff (Meg Page), at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.