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A native of Bolivar, New York, American soprano Joélle Harvey has built a reputation as one of the finest singers of her generation, performing major roles on the world’s opera and concert stages.
The 2025-2026 season is anchored by the operas of Mozart: debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Washington National Opera as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Santa Fe Opera’s new Christopher Luscombe production of The Magic Flute, conducted by Harry Bicket, and a reprisal of Pamina with The Metropolitan Opera, in their charming holiday presentation. Throughout the season, Joélle performs Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with The Cleveland Orchestra (Franz Welser-Möst); Mahler’s 4th Symphony in her Philadelphia Orchestra debut (Dalia Stasevska); Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Magnificat with the San Francisco Symphony (Bernard Labadie); and Bach Cantatas with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Harvey began a richly-varied 2024-2025 season with Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque for Haydn’s Creation, and returned to Chicago later in the season for the composer’s Paukenmesse with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Manfred Honeck conducting). She sang Mozart’s Requiem with the St. Louis Symphony (Stéphane Denève), a program of Poulenc and Ravel in a return to the Milwaukee Symphony, and Mahler’s 2nd Symphony Resurrection for Music Director Robin Ticciati’s final season with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. She performed Handel’s Messiah with the Houston Symphony (Jonathan Cohen), selections from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Cincinnati Symphony, Bach’s Easter Oratorio & Magnificat with the Cleveland Orchestra and St. John Passion with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, both with Bernard Labadie, and Handel cantatas with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society and Jonathan Cohen. During the summer of 2025, she returned to the role of Anne Trulove in Chas Rader-Shieber’s new production of The Rake’s Progress at Des Moines Metro Opera.
The soprano began the 2023-2024 season with an appearance at London’s Wigmore Hall, singing the role of Tirsi in Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, with Harry Bicket leading The English Concert. She sang Handel’s Messiah with the San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, North Carolina Symphony and Handel & Haydn Society, Fauré’s Requiem with the National Symphony Orchestra, and a program of Haydn and Mozart with H&H. Season debuts included the Houston Symphony, for Orff’s Carmina Burana, and the New World Symphony, for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Notably, Harvey joined two long-tenured Music Directors for their farewell seasons: Louis Langrée, leading the Cincinnati Symphony in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, and the Kansas City Symphony’s Michael Stern, who conducted performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2.
An in-demand vocal soloist, the soprano regularly appears with the United States’ great orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic (Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah), the Cleveland Orchestra (Schubert Mass in E-flat, Mahler’s 2nd & 4th, Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5, Bach’s B Minor Mass), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Carmina Burana, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915), the San Francisco Symphony (Fidelio, Beethoven Mass in C, Handel’s Messiah, Carmina Burana), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Nixon in China, Beethoven Missa Solemnis). She has closely collaborated with a celebrated list of conductors, including Leonardo García Alarcón, Harry Bicket, Harry Christophers, Jonathan Cohen, Laurence Cummings, Jakub Hrůša, Bernard Labadie, Louis Langrée, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart and Franz Welser-Möst.
On the operatic stage, Ms. Harvey appears regularly at the Glyndebourne Festival, having bowed in 8 roles, including Handel’s Semele (title role) and Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), Mozart’s Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Donizetti’s Adina (L’elisir d’amore). She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute, Opernhaus Zürich debut as Aristea in Pergolesi’s L’Olimpiade, and her Royal Opera, Covent Garden debut as Susanna. Other appearances include Galatea in Acis and Galatea and Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Flora in The Turn of the Screw with Houston Grand Opera, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress with Utah Opera, as well as Zerlina and Eurydice in Telemann’s Orpheus with New York City Opera.
Joélle Harvey is closely associated with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society, where her varied appearances have included Michal in Saul, Dalilia in Samson, and Iphis in Jephtha, and Haydn’s The Creation, led by Harry Christophers CBE in his final performances as H&H Artistic Director. She enjoys an ongoing collaboration with London’s The English Concert (Almirena in Rinaldo, Tigrane in Radamisto, Handel’s Messiah), made her solo Carnegie Hall recital debut in 2019 with pianist Allen Perriello, and has appeared at the BBC Proms as the Mater Gloriosa in Mahler’s 8th Symphony, Servilia in La clemenza di Tito and as a soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass. She performed John Adams’ El Niño at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and with the London Symphony Orchestra, in a performance conducted by the composer. Other career highlights include appearances with the Bamberg Symphoniker (Mahler’s 4th & Alma Mahler songs), the Saint Louis Symphony (Mahler 2), Dallas Symphony Orchestra (Mozart Requiem), Toronto Symphony (Mahler 2), and repeat appearances with the orchestras of Cincinnati, Kansas City, Milwaukee, North Carolina, and Indianapolis.
A celebrated chamber musician, Ms. Harvey has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Music @ Menlo, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Les Violons du Roy, Cappella Mediterranea, Arcangelo and the Pygmalion Ensemble.
Joélle Harvey received Second Prize in Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers. She was the recipient of a First Prize Award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and a Sara Tucker Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. She is a recipient of the Shoshana Foundation’s Richard F. Gold Career Grant, and was also presented with the John Alexander Memorial Award and the coveted Sam Adams Award for Achievement in Acting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).
Ms. Harvey received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in vocal performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She began her career training at Glimmerglass Opera (now The Glimmerglass Festival) and the Merola Opera Program.
