JenniferFrance

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."

Recent highlights include Zerbinetta at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, two returns to the Royal Opera House for Iphis Jephtha conducted by Laurence Cummings and Despina Così fan tutte with Alexander Soddy and as Beatrice in the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Il viaggio, Dante at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

24/25 sees Jennifer make her Opéra National de Paris debut singing Beatrice in Dusapin’s Il viaggio, Dante conducted by Kent Nagano. Jennifer will also make a return to the London Philharmonic Orchestra singing Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Edward Gardner, join Jaime Martin and the Orquesta Nacionales de España for the Spanish premiere of Brett Dean’s In spe contra spe, and return to the London Sinfonietta singing James MacMillan’s Love Bade Me Welcome.

A prolific contemporary artist, she has sung Gerald Barry’s The Eternal Recurrence with the Britten Sinfonia, which was recorded for Signum, and in the world premiere of Brett Dean’s In This Brief Moment with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Nick Collon. She made her BBC Proms debut in 2017 and Salzburg Festival debut in 2019 singing Pascal Dusapin’s Medeamaterial with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Last season, she made her debut at the Edinburgh International Festival with Hans Abrahamsen’s Let me tell you conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth and returned to the BBC Proms with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner for Ligeti’s Requiem. Contemporary opera includes the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen for Opera Holland Park, Alice in Gerald Barry’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, First Niece Peter Grimes, and Lessons in Love and Violence for The Royal Opera House, La Princesse in Philip Glass’ Orphée for English National Opera, and Ophelia in Brett Dean’s Hamlet for Glyndebourne On Tour.