Acclaimed for her vocal flexibility, dramatic instinct, and refined musicianship, GRAMMY Award–nominated soprano Georgia Jarman has built an international career spanning lyric, bel canto, and contemporary repertoire on leading opera and concert stages. A highlight of the current season is her debut at the Finnish National Opera in Mark Anthony Turnage’s award-winning new opera Festen (Mette). Future seasons include debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Adelaide Festival.
Operatic highlights of Ms. Jarman’s career include the title roles in Manon, Maria Stuarda, and Lucia di Lammermoor, along with La traviata (Violetta), Rigoletto (Gilda), La bohème (Mimì and Musetta), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), Peter Grimes (Ellen Orford), Aureliano in Palmira (Zenobia), Don Pasquale (Norina), La sonnambula (Amina), Tancredi (Amenāide), La fille du régiment (Marie), I Capuleti e i montecchi (Giulietta), Guillaume Tell (Mathilde), Don Giovanni (Donna Anna and Donna Elvira) and Faust (Marguerite), as well as all four heroines in Les contes d’Hoffmann. She has appeared with leading companies including The Metropolitan Opera; Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Staatsoper Hamburg; Gran Teatre del Liceu; Opéra National de Lyon; Opernhaus Zürich; English National Opera; Opera Philadelphia; The Santa Fe Opera; Washington Concert Opera; Malmö Opera; Grange Park Opera; Opéra National de Bordeaux; Polish National Opera; The Dallas Opera; Florentine Opera; Palm Beach Opera; Cincinnati Opera; New Orleans Opera; Florida Grand Opera; Minnesota Opera; Portland Opera; and The Atlanta Opera.
On the concert stage, Ms. Jarman has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (including appearances at the BBC Proms), Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, and NHK Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with Kent Nagano, Ilan Volkov, Marc Albrecht, Louis Langrée, Robert Spano, Tomáš Netopil, Christopher Warren Green, Lawrence Renes, Dima Slobodeniouk, and David Danzmayr. Orchestral highlights include Britten’s War Requiem, Berg’s Seven Early Songs, Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, Szymanowski’s Love Songs of Hafiz, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Handel’s Messiah, and Dvořák’s Te Deum.
Particularly admired as an interpreter of contemporary opera, she has collaborated closely with composer George Benjamin, performing Written on Skin (Agnès) and Lessons in Love and Violence (Isabel) in productions and concerts across Europe and Asia, including appearances at the Venice Biennale Musica, Staatsoper Hamburg, Opéra National de Lyon, and Gran Teatre del Liceu, as well as in concert at the Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Holland Festival, and with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris under the composer’s direction.
She made her Royal Opera House Covent Garden debut in Kasper Holten’s production of Szymanowski’s Król Roger (Roxana); the performance was broadcast to cinemas worldwide and was later released commercially on CD/DVD and received a GRAMMY Award nomination for Best Opera Recording.
Ms. Jarman’s artistry is further documented on recordings that include La bohème (Musetta) with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on Telarc, Glass’ Orphée (Eurydice) with Portland Opera on Orange Mountain Music, and Floyd’s Wuthering Heights (Cathy) with Florentine Opera on FRESH!
2025-2026
