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About Jennifer
Winner of the 2018 Critics’ Circle Emerging Talent Award, British soprano Jennifer France was described in WhatsOnStage as the "living jewel in opera’s crown."
Plans in the 2023/24 season include two returns to the Royal Opera House for Iphis (Jephtha) conducted by Laurence Cummings and Despina (Così fan tutte) conducted by Alexander Soddy. On the concert platform, Jennifer will sing Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Matthew Halls, Jonathan Dove’s There Was a Child with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Strauss’ Sechs Lieder with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko, Brett Dean’s Evolution Cantata with the Orchestre National de Lyon/Markus Stenz, Brett Dean’s String Quartet No.2 with the Doric String Quartet at the Wigmore Hall; Christmas concerts with the Royal Choral Society at the Royal Albert Hall and New Years Eve gala concerts with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Jiří Rožeň.
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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
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Season Highlights
Video
Jennifer France performs ‘Les roses d’Ispahan’ by Fauré
Credit: Moran Magen
PlayingJennifer France performs ‘Crede sol che a nuovi ardori’ by Il Vologeso
Credit: The Mozartists
PlayingJennifer France performs ‘Endless Pleasure, Endless Love’ from Semele
Credit: Deutsche Haendel Solisten Haendel Festspielchor
PlayingJennifer France performs 'Grossmächtige Prinzessin’ from Ariadne auf Naxos
Credit: Opera North
PlayingJennifer France performs 'Neghitossi or voi che fate?' from Handel's Ariodante
Credit: Academy of Ancient Music
Playing
Selected Repertoire
| Barry | Alice's Adventures Under Ground (Alice) |
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| Beethoven | Fidelio (Marzelline) |
| Bellini | La Sonnambula (Amina) • I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Giulietta) |
| Benjamin | Into the Little Hill • Lessons in Love and Violence (Witness / Singer / Woman) |
| Bernstein | Candide (Cunegonde) • West Side Story (Maria) |
| Britten | A Midsummer Night's Dream (Tytania) • Peter Grimes (1st Niece) |
| Dean | Hamlet (Ophelia) |
| Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande (Mélisandre) |
| Delibes | Lakmé (Lakmé) |
| Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia) • L'elisir d'amore (Adina) |
| Dove | Flight (The Controller) |
| Dusapin | Passion (Her) • Il Viaggio Dante (Beatrice) • Medeamaterial |
| Glass | Orphée (La Princesse Orphée) |
| Gounod | Roméo et Juliette (Juliette) |
| Hammerstein | Carousel (Julie / Carrie) |
| Handel | Semele (Semele) • Jephtha (Iphis) • Ariodante (Dalinda) • Alcina (Alcina) • Agrippina (Poppea) |
| Heggie | It's A Wonderful Life (Mary Hatch Bailey) |
| Humperdinck | Hänsel und Gretel (Sandman / Dew Fairy) |
| Janáček | The Cunning Little Vixen (Sharp Ears the Vixen) |
| MacRae | Anthropocene (Ice) |
| Mozart | Così fan tutte (Despina) • Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna) • Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Blonde / Konstanze) • Don Giovanni (Zerlina) • Mitridate, re di Ponto (Ismene) • Idomeneo (Ilia) • La clemenza di Tito (Servilia) • Die Zauberflöte (Pamina) |
| Norman | A Trip to the Moon (Eoa) |
| Offenbach | Fantasio (Princess Elsbeth) • Orphée aux enfers (Eurydice) |
| Puccini | Gianni Schicchi (Lauretta) |
| Ravel | L'enfant et les sortilèges (Le feuf / La Princesse / Le Rossignol) |
| Rossini | Le Comte Ory (Countess Adèle) • Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina) |
| Strauss, J. | Die Fledermaus (Adele) |
| Strauss, R. | Ariadne auf Naxos (Zerbinetta) • Arabella (Fiakermilli / Zdenka) |
| Sullivan | The Mikado (Yum-Yum) • The Pirates of Penzance (Mabel) • Ruddigore (Rose Maybud) |
| Tippett | The Midsummer Marriage (Bella) |
| Verdi | Un ballo in maschera (Oscar) |
| Weinberg | Die Passagierin (Yvette) |
News
Press
Così fan tutte (Despina)
Royal Opera HouseJun 2024As the two schemers, Gerald Finley and Jennifer France both sang like a dream... France’s crystalline soprano sparkled as Despina
- Keith McDonnell, MusicOMH
- 26 June 2024
Jennifer France’s Despina was full of fun, with great comedic timing and clowning as the disguised doctor and notary, and was highly nimble vocally, with some cracking top notes too.
- Nick Boston, BachTrack
- 27 June 2024
The real subversive centre of the piece is the maid Despina sung by British soprano Jennifer France as a red-headed cocktail-shaking, bar-strutting whirlwind. Despina pushes the two sisters over the cliff edge of fidelity in her aria: “Una donna a quindici anni”—”A fifteen-year-old woman” making the most of her translucent vocal tone and powerful coloratura edge. France has to double up as an ancient doctor and notary utilising her fine comic acting skills.
- Adrian York, London Unattached
- 27 June 2024
Jennifer France’s Despina is an onstage dynamo, revelling in silly voices for her absurd turns as a doctor and notary.
- Flora Wilson, The Guardian
- 27 June 2024
