JenniferDavis

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About Jennifer

Jennifer is an alumna of the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme and following a series of sensational roles debuts, has been propelled to international attention, winning praise for her gleaming, silvery tone, and dramatic characterisations of remarkable immediacy.

This 2023/24 season Jennifer will sing Marguerite (Faust) at Irish National Opera, Elsa von Brabant (Lohengrin) at Deutsche Oper Berlin and the title role in Jenůfa at English National Opera. Future seasons will see returns to Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Irish National Opera and debuts at Hamburgische Staatsoper, Grand Théâtre de Genève and New National Theatre, Tokyo.

Recent highlights include singing the title role in Dvořák's Armida at Wexford Festival Opera, Freia in Das Rheingold at Semperoper Dresden, Helmwige (The Valkyrie) at English National Opera, Elsa von Brabant (Lohengrin) at Deutsche Oper Berlin and Elsa von Brabant and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Previous operatic engagements include Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) for Opera North, Lenka (Svadba) for the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Violetta (Il bravo), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Agata (Don Bucefalo) for Wexford Festival Opera, Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) for Lyric Opera Productions, Elsa von Brabant (Lohengrin) for Staatsoper Stuttgart, Die Zauberflöte for Welsh National Opera and the Irish National Opera, Leonore (Fidelio) for Wiener Staatsoper and Erste Dame, (Die Zauberflöte); Ifigenia (Oreste); Arbate (Mitridate, re di Ponto); and Ines in Il trovatore. for Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

Jennifer is based in Ireland

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Season Highlights

Oct 2024
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Beethoven Fidelio (Leonore) Alexander Soddy (conductor)
Jan 2025
National Concert Hall, Dublin
New Year's Day Concert - Strauss 2000 National Symphony Orchestra Gavin Maloney conductor Jennifer Davis soprano
Mar 2025
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Strauss Arabella (title role) Sir Donald Runnicles (conductor)

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Selected Repertoire

BeethovenFidelio (Leonore)
DvorakArmida (title role)
JanáčekJenůfa (title role)
MozartCosì fan tutte (Fiordiligi)   •   Don Giovanni (Donna Anna)   •   Le nozze di Figaro (Countess Almaviva)   •   Die Zauberflöte (Erste Dame, Pamina)   •   Mitridate, re di Ponto (Arbate)
PucciniSuor Angelica (La suora infermiera)
StraussSalome (title role)   •   Arabella (title role)
TchaikovskyEugene Onegin (Olga)
VerdiIl trovatore (Ines)
WagnerLohengrin (Elsa von Brabant)   •   Das Rheingold (Freia)   •   Die Walküre (Helmwige)

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  • Janáček Jenůfa

    English National Opera, London Coliseum
    Mar 2024

    • Davis sings with an extraordinary radiance (hers really is a most beautiful voice) and vivid depth of feeling, so that Jenůfa’s rapture, anguish and eventual strength, moral as well as emotional, all really hit home. Her grief at the death of her baby has a desperate immediacy only achievable through superb artistry. As despair finally yields to love and hope in the closing scenes, the blaze in her tone is simply breathtaking.

    • Young Irish soprano Jennifer Davis in the title role complements a strong, clear voice with impeccable acting skills. Her top notes are secure, her diction exemplary. Her star is rising very fast.

    • It was Jennifer Davis who owned the stage in the title role. Her voice is as powerful as her stage presence … Davis’ responses to Kostelnička Buryja, were frequently heart-melting, as was her prayer to the Virgin Mary.

    • Jennifer Davis stole the show, with a bell-like tone that was truly beautiful and the interaction between the Kostelnička and Jenůfa was astonishingly moving.

    • Jenufa of Jennifer Davis was beautifully nuanced. One really felt for her throughout, and her nobility of purpose was beautifully captured at the end.

    • Jennifer Davis’ bold distinct soprano filled the Coliseum in an utterly credible performance, but the technique was there to file the voice down in delicate pianissimo that was completely audible. Hers is a voice that glows just as much as her portrayal of the character; her Jenůfa is a beacon in a very murky moral ecosystem.

    • Jennifer Davis uses the power behind her beautiful lyric soprano to go the extra mile, as she always does.