Soloist

Jennifer O’Loughlin

Jennifer O’Loughlin trained in the USA at the Manhattan School of Music and the Peabody Conservatory of Music. She received a scholarship from the Karajan Foundation to join the studio at Zurich Opera House and shortly afterwards became a member of the ensemble at the Volksoper Wien. She has sung roles such as Konstanze (»Die Entführung aus dem Serail«) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Bayerische Staatsoper, Adele (»Die Fledermaus«) at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, and Titania (Britten’s »A Midsummer Night’s Dream«) at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia. In addition, she has performed in various leading roles at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Opéra de Limoges, the Lucerne Theatre, the Wiener Staatsoper, and at the Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals, as well as with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, and worked under conductors such as Manfred Honeck, Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Mehta, James Conlon, Daniel Harding, Roberto Abbado, Fabio Biondi, Cornelius Meister, Kristjan Järvi, Joseph Bastian and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

In concerts, she has performed Pergolesi’s »Stabat Mater« with the RAI Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale in Turin, Orff’s »Carmina Burana* at the International George Enescu Festival in Bucharest, Handel’s »Messiah* with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Bernstein’s »Candide* with the Russian National Orchestra at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. In 2013, she received the ‘Maria Callas Prize’ for her portrayal of the madness scene in »Lucia di Lammermoor* at the Paris Opera Awards and was awarded the Österreichischen Musiktheaterpreis for her interpretation of Cunegonde in *Candide* at the Vienna Volksoper in the category ‘Best Female Lead’.

Jennifer O’Loughlin can be heard on numerous recordings, including Elīna Garanča’s »Revive« (Deutsche Grammophon), Handel’s »Messiah« with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Naxos), Haydn’s »Acide« with the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien (BIS), Bernstein’s »Mass« with the Tonkünstler Orchestra (Chandos), and on the DVD recording of Wagner’s »Rienzi« from the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Opus Arte).

At the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, where she has been a member of the company since 2016, she has performed various roles, including the title roles in »Luisa Miller«, »Maria Stuarda«, »Anna Bolena«, »La sonnambula«, »Martha« and »Semele«, as well as Konstanze (»Die Entführung aus dem Serail«), Donna Anna (»Don Giovanni«), Fiordiligi (»Così fan tutte«), Countess Almaviva (»The Marriage of Figaro«), Leïla (»Les Pêcheurs de Perles«) Rosina (»The Barber of Seville«), Gilda (»Rigoletto«), Antonia (»The Tales of Hoffmann«), Mrs Fluth (»The Merry Wives of Windsor«) and Rosalinde (»Die Fledermaus«). The most recent additions to her repertoire at the theatre are Adina (»L’elisir d’amore«), Michaëla (»Carmen«) and Violetta Valéry (»La traviata«), and she appeared as a soloist alongside Levy Sekgapane in the acclaimed concert »Viva Belcanto!«.