WDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA COLOGNE
Strauss - Salome - concert version - Salome
Sep 1 (Bucharest)
Sep 6 (Cologne)

TEATRO CARLO FELICE GENOVA
Mozart - Don Giovanni - Donna Elvira
Oct 10/12/17

TEATRO DELL' OPERA DI ROMA
Wagner - Lohengrin - Elsa
PREMIERE Nov 27
Nov 30, Dec 2/5/7/9

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Barber - Vanessa - concert version - Vanessa
Jan 8/10

VIENNA STATE OPERA
Wagner - Parsifal - Kundry
Apr 2/5/8

HAMBURG STATE OPERA
Strauss - Elektra - Chrysothemis
Apr 14/19, May 1/8

BAYREUTH FESTIVAL
Wagner - Rienzi - Adriano
PREMIERE July 26
Aug 3/8/11/13/17/22/24/26

Biography

In recent years, the American soprano Jennifer Holloway has established herself internationally as one of the leading sopranos in the youthful-dramatic repertoire, and she was able to sustainably reinforce her position with her Bayreuth debut as Sieglinde (Walküre).

Jennifer Holloway begins the 25/26 season with Salome, one of her most successful roles to date, in concert performances of the opera with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne and Bucharest. She will then be heard as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, before taking on Elsa in a new production of Lohengrin (Michieletto/Martiotti) at the Rome Opera. With her role debut as Barber's Vanessa, she will present herself for the first time with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in concert performances of the opera of the same name. She is expected at the Vienna State Opera as Kundry (Parsifal) and at the Hamburg State Opera as Chrysothemis (Elektra). The Bayreuth Festival 2026 has engaged the soprano as Adriano in the first production of Rienzi in the history of the festivals.
Highlights of recent seasons include her role debut as Kundry at the Oper Frankfurt , the house debut at the Zurich Opera as Beethoven's Leonore ( Fidelio ), Salome at the State Operas in Vienna and Berlin as well as at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Chrysothemis, Tannhäuser - Elisabeth and her role debuts as Sieglinde ( Walküre ), Senta ( The Flying Dutchman ), Fidelio - Leonore and Ellen Orford ( Peter Grimes ) at the Hamburg State Opera, Senta also at the Semperoper Dresden , Cassandre ( Les Troyens ) and Senta at the Bavarian State Opera, Sieglinde concert version with the Orchestre de Paris under Jaap van Zweden and in the Vienna Konzerthaus under Joana Mallwitz, the title role of César Franck's Hulda in Paris, the Nunciata in Saint-Saens ' L'Ancêtre in Monte Carlo, Grete in a new production of Schreker's Der ferne Klang at the Oper Frankfurt , her role debut as Lohengrin- Elsa at the Leipzig Opera , Composer ( Ariadne auf Naxos ) at the Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Cassandre in Les Troyens and Salome at the Semperoper Dresden .
Jennifer Holloway began her career as a mezzo-soprano with the great mezzo roles of Mozart and Handel such as Dorabella ( Cosi fan tutte) , Cherubino ( Le nozze di Figaro) , Idamante ( Idomeneo) , Irene ( Tamerlano ) at houses such as Teatro Real Madrid or the Los Angeles Opera.
In concert, she has appeared in Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and with Mozart's Mass in C minor under Bertrand de Billy in Dresden, as well as several times with Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder.
2025/26
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