Jennifer Larmore is an outstanding American mezzo-soprano, well known for her versatility, natural beauty and stage craft. This artist has a wide ranging repertoire, excelling in the coloratura roles of the Baroque and bel canto, in addition to music from the Romantic and Contemporary periods. ...
read full bioJennifer Larmore is an outstanding American mezzo-soprano, well known for her versatility, natural beauty and stage craft. This artist has a wide ranging repertoire, excelling in the coloratura roles of the Baroque and bel canto, in addition to music from the Romantic and Contemporary periods.
Ms. Larmore began her career at Opera de Nice in 1986 with Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito and went on to sing at virtually every major opera house in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Paris Opera, Berlin Deutsche Oper, and London Covent Garden.
Ms. Larmore has recorded widely for the Teldec, RCA, Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Grammophon, Arabesque, Opera Rara, Bayer, Naive, Chandos, VAI and Cedille labels in over one hundred CDs to date.
With her frequent collaborator Antoine Palloc, she has made many International recital tours, including appearances in Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Vietnam, Vienna, London, San Juan, Prague, Melbourne, Brussels, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, Sao Paolo, Athens and Copenhagen, as well as all the major American venues.
Symphonic repertoire plays a large role in this mezzo’s career with the works of Mahler, Schoenberg, Mozart, de Falla, Debussy, Berlioz and Barber featuring prominently. Miss Larmore has enjoyed great collaborations with world orchestras under the direction of Muti, Lopez-Cobos, Bernstein, Runnicles, Sinopoli, Masur, von Dochnanyi, Jacobs, Mackarras, Spinosi, Guidarini, Kalmar, Rudel, Barenboim, Queler, Bonynge, Maazel , Osawa and Hengelbrock.
Ms. Larmore's upcoming schedule takes her to the Théatre des Champs-Elysees, London’s Barbicon, Venice, Budapest and Paris Opera Bastille as Alcina in Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso with Jean-Chrsitophe Spinosi; to Paris’ Opera Bastille for the Countess Geschwitz in Berg's Lulu which she debuted in June 2009 to great success at Covent Garden in the Christof Loy production with Anthony Pappano; to Brussels La Monnaie as Dulcinée in Massenet's Don Quichotte with Marc Minkowski; to Berlin Deutsche Oper for Kostelnichka in Janacek's Jenufa with Donald Runnicles; to Washington Concert Opera for Charlotte in Werther; to Geneva for the role of Lady Macbeth in a new Christof Loy production of Verdi’s opera Macbeth.
Ms. Larmore, in collaboration with the double bass player Davide Vittone has created a new ensemble called Jennifer Larmore and OpusFive. The three programs they offer are entertaining and varied with Songs and Arias, Cabaret/Operetta and Movies and Broadway which feature string quintet and voice. They will be giving concerts in Seville, Pamploma, Valencia, Las Palmas, Venice, Amiens and Aix en Provence.
In addition to her many activities, travels, performances and causes, author Jennifer Larmore is working on books that will bring a wider public to the love of opera.
