Jennifer Larmore

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Jennifer Larmore (2013)

Jennifer Larmore (born June 21, 1958 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is an American opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Jennifer Larmore grew up in the southern metropolis of Atlanta . She completed her first vocal training in Princeton (New Jersey) . She made her debut in 1986 as Sesto ( La clemenza di Tito , WA Mozart) in Nice.

Operas by Gioachino Rossini , Vincenzo Bellini , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Georg Friedrich Händel play a particularly important role in their selected repertoire. She made her German debut in 1990 in a fantastic new production by Willi Decker of Il barbiere di Siviglia in Bonn. She made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 1993 as Dorabella in Così fan tutte . Rosina from Il barbiere di Siviglia became one of her most important roles, in which she could be heard with great success in Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Bonn, Berlin, Milan, London and San Francisco. These same role she chose for her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1995, to which they in the following season with Hansel and Gretel and then with La Cenerentola , Giulio Cesare , Les Contes d'Hoffmann , L'italiana in Algeri and Die Fledermaus returned . At La Scala in Milan she was heard first as an isolator in Le comte Ory and later in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges and Il barbiere di Siviglia . Two of her favorite trouser roles are Romeo from I Capuleti ei Montecchi , with whom she appeared in Lisbon, Geneva, New York and Paris, and the title role from Giulio Cesare , which she performed in New York, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Paris, Berlin, Montreux, Madrid and Brussels sang. In 1998 she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in the role of Isabelle from L'italiana in Algeri , with whom she has appeared in Turin, Berlin, Buenos Aires and New York. She also took on the title role from Bizet's Carmen in her repertoire, with which she could be heard in Los Angeles and Washington, and which she sang for a recording for Teldec in 1995.

The concert repertoire of mezzo-soprano ranges from Handel's Messiah and Vivaldi's Magnificat on Rossini's Stabat Mater to Mahler's Rückert Lieder , which she not only in the Vienna Musikverein with Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic , but also in the Concertgebouw , Amsterdam, with Donald Runnicles for Performance brought. She sang Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder in concerts with the Staatskapelle Dresden / Giuseppe Sinopoli and with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Mariss Jansons . With Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra she recorded De Fallas El amor brujo for Teldec in 1997 . Larmore made her New York debut with Das Lied von der Erde under the direction of Kurt Masur . She also sang a concert version of Camelot at the Hollywood Bowl , with actor Patrick Stewart in the role of Arthur and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra under John Mauceri.

The year 2004 began for Jennifer Larmore in Covent Garden with Giulietta in Les Contes d'Hoffmann and four recordings for the Opera Rara label: two one-act plays by Donizetti, Francesca di Foix and Elvida , released in 2005, the eighth part of “Il Salotto “Series, which will be released in November 2005, as well as a solo recording with works by Mercadante, Costa, Arditi and Rossini, which was released in May 2005 under the title Bravura Diva . With four performances at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Italy, Larmore could be heard again in Il barbiere di Siviglia , after which she traveled to Gstaad, Switzerland at the end of March for a recital with Antoine Palloc. In April Larmore sang the mezzo part from Mahler's Second Symphony ( Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ). In Berlioz ' La damnation de Faust she could then be heard as Marguerite under the baton of Seiji Ozawa at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. At the BBC Proms in London , where she is a welcome guest, Larmore sang Hansel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. At the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires she was seen as Elisabetta in Rossini's Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra (conductor: Eve Queler ) and slipped into the role of Alcina from Vivaldis for two performances with the Ensemble Matheus and Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Toulouse and Brussels Orlando furioso .

In May 2005, Jennifer Larmore returned to her alma mater, Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, to receive an honorary doctorate, give a recital, and deliver the welcoming speech at the graduation ceremony. At the Metropolitan Opera she sang Elizabeth Griffiths in the world premiere of Tobias Picker's An American Tragedy in December 2005 .

Highlights of recent seasons include: a. Berlioz ' La damnation de Faust with Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland, her debut as Charlotte in Jules Massenet's Werther with Bertrand de Billy (Vienna) and her appearance in Donizetti's La favorita at Carnegie Hall . Her debut at the London BBC Proms in 2002 with Cinco Canciones Negras by Xavier Montsalvatge and her appearance in the title role of Giulio Cesare in a Luca Ronconi production at the Teatro Real in Madrid are particularly noteworthy. The following year, the singer was at the New York Metropolitan for her first appearance as Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus , with which she later appeared in Tokyo under the direction of Seiji Ozawa. She also sang the title role from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (with Antoni Ros Marba) as well as Rossini and Vivaldi arias in a concert with Jean-Christophe Spinosi and the Ensemble Matheus at the Théâtre du Châtelet, gave a recital with Antoine Palloc in Hong Kong, was heard as Alcina in Paris (Spinosi), in Semiramide at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and in the role of Giovanna Seymour in Anna Bolena with Eve Queler and the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall. Also in 2003, Jennifer Larmore was awarded the “Chevalier des arts et des lettres” by the French government in a ceremony at the Opéra Bastille .

Discography

From 1994, the year in which the singer received the renowned Richard Tucker Prize, Jennifer Larmore recorded exclusively for Teldec Classics International. In their successful collaboration with Teldec went three Rossini operas - Il Barbiere di Siviglia , La Cenerentola and L'italiana in Algeri - and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel , Bizet's Carmen , Verdi's Rigoletto , Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi out . She also recorded Maurice Duruflé's Requiem , Igor Stravinski's Pulcinella and Arnold Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder . Her recital recordings include a CD with arias by Handel and Mozart ( Where Shall I Fly ), a recording with trouser-roll arias ( Call Me Mister ), and a CD entitled Born in Atlanta to celebrate their participation in the closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games 1996, a compilation of songs by American composers of the 19th and 20th centuries ( My Native Land ), scenes and arias from Rossini's lesser-known operas ( Amore per Rossini ), and Belleza Vocale , an album of popular duets (with soprano Hei-Kyung Hong).

Her performance of De Fallas El sombrero de tres picos (The Hat With Three Corners) with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim was released in 2002 on a CD with works by the composer. For Harmonia Mundi, Jennifer Larmore worked with René Jacobs and Concerto Köln on recordings of Claudio Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and L'Orfeo , Mozart's Great Mass in C minor and Handel's Giulio Cesare . The latter was awarded the Gramophone Award for “Best Baroque Opera”. Larmore Falliero sang for Opera Rara in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero , Estrella in Pacini's Carlo di Bourgogne and most recently the title role in Rossini's Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra . Opera Rara also released CDs with the titles Duets to Die for , Tyrants and Lovers and La Rimembranza. The singer recorded French opera arias under the title L'Etoile for Warner Classics and Antonio Vivaldi's Orlando furioso with Jennifer Larmore appeared on Naïve Records - the first complete recording of this opera. In May 2005 this recording was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize.

Web links

• Jennifer Larmore at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon