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Soprano Jennifer Rowley is acclaimed worldwide for her unforgettable voice and remarkable stage presence, singing a richly varied repertoire that includes many of opera's greatest heroines.
Ms. Rowley’s 2025-2026 season features exciting house and role debuts, beginning with her season-opening Washington National Opera debut as the title role in Aida. She sings the title role in Madama Butterfly, conducted by Fabio Luisi, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, including a summer performance at Bravo!Vail. The spring season includes role debuts at Teatro Carlo Felice (Genoa) as Verdi’s Lady Macbeth, and the title role in Turandot at Florida Grand Opera. Ms. Rowley also returns to The Metropolitan Opera, to cover Maddalena in Andrea Chénier.
The soprano began the 2024-25 season as Minnie in La Fanciulla del West at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China in a production by Thaddeus Strassberger and maestro Carlo Rizzi. Ms. Rowley followed this with a reprisal of a signature role, Amelia Grimaldi in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra with Opernhaus Zürich, and her house debut at Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón, as the title role in Verdi's Aida. She also returned to Teatro Lirico di Cagliari for additional performances of the role. Other engagements included her house debut with Teatro Petruzzelli Bari as the title role in Puccini's Tosca, followed by further performances of the role with the Richmond Symphony.
The past several seasons have introduced Ms. Rowley to new audiences across the globe: the Bayerische Staatsoper, for a concert performance of Italian and Zarzuela operatic favorites; Teatro Carlo Felice, for the title role of Madama Butterfly, under the baton of maestro Fabio Luisi; Teatro Regio Torino, as Minnie in La Fanciulla del West; Staatsoper Berlin Unter den Linden, for the title role in Tosca and Leonora in Il Trovatore; and Semperoper Dresden, as Valentine in Les Huguenots and Tosca.
On the concert stage, Ms. Rowley performed concert performances of Tosca with the Israel Philharmonic led by maestro Zubin Mehta. She was the soprano soloist in Beethoven's colossal Missa Solemnis with the Philadelphia Orchestra both in Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center, and New York City’s Carnegie Hall, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and sang Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Richmond Symphony.
Other recent and career highlights include the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur, Tosca and Leonora in Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera; Leonora at Opéra de Paris and Maggio Musicale Florentino; her house and role debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as the title role of Aida; the title role in Tosca at Opéra de Marseille; her house and role debut at the National Theatre Prague as Amelia in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera; and Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly and Hannah Glawari in Lehár's The Merry Widow for Palm Beach Opera.
Audiences will remember Jennifer Rowley’s triumphant Metropolitan Opera role debut as Roxane in Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac (2017) with Roberto Alayna in the title role, which inspired universal critical praise. The New York Times raved that this was a “break-through moment,” further adding that for the heartbreaking final scene, “Ms. Rowley sang with an intensity of expression and a subtly embittered sound that suggested a singer for enormous gift and promise.” The New York Classical Review echoed these statements, also calling this “a breakout night for Ms. Rowley.” Operawire called her Roxane “the heart of the production,” The Observer said she is “a superb artist,” while ConcertoNet called her Roxane “a revelation.” Ms. Rowley previously made her Metropolitan Opera stage debut in a sparkling portrayal of Musetta in La bohème.
Ms. Rowley is an avid mentor to the next generation of opera’s young artists, taking the torch from her mentor Martina Arroyo. During the summer of 2022, she created and implemented the inaugural season of Jennifer Rowley’s Aria Bootcamp in Sarasota, FL, which became a fully formed young artist training program and nonprofit in 2023. Ms. Rowley holds an annual artist residency at her alma matter, Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. Ms. Rowley led an internationally acclaimed Virtual Artist Residency with Fort Worth Opera during the COVID-19 pandemic, where she held weekly themed Zoom masterclasses, engaging lectures, and casual Instagram Live chats with other singers, directors, coaches, and opera industry professionals. The success of that series led her to create an exclusive, six-week Virtual Audition Intensive.
Ms. Rowley’s calendar includes an active seminar and masterclass series for colleges and universities internationally. She has taught masterclasses and seminars for NATS NY and Tampa chapters, Penn State University, SUNY Potsdam, Bowling Green State University, the University of Miami, and for the young artist programs at Shreveport Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and Toledo Opera. Ms. Rowley has served as voice faculty for several international festivals including Vincero Academy, Camerata Bardi Academy, the International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia, and Vienna Summer Music Festival. She is also a recommended judge for the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.
Ms. Rowley is a highly decorated soprano who has been recognized by many international competitions. She was awarded the 2012 Richard Tucker Career Grant, was one of the top prize winners in the 2013 Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation Competition and the 2011 Opera Index Vocal Competition, a winner of the 2011 William Mattheus Sullivan Musical Foundation awards, a first prize-winner of the 2011 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, a grant winner of the 2011 Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition, and the winner of the 2010 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition for the Michigan District.
Ms. Rowley holds a Master of Music degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. She holds a Certificate of Performance Achievement from the Instituto Superior del Arte of the Teatro Colón and was a Max Kade Scholar at Middlebury College’s German for Singers Program. Ms. Rowley serves as an advisory board member for Classical Singer Magazine.
