Soprano Jana McIntyre is a George and Nora London Foundation Award winner and a finalist in The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. In the 26/27 season, she makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in Parsifal (Flower Maiden I), returns to San Francisco Opera and joins the roster of the Met for Manon (title role cover), and returns to OrpheusPDX for Bajazet (Idaspe). On the concert stage, Jana debuts with the Sarasota Orchestra and Asheville Symphony in Carmina Burana, returns to the Erie Philharmonic for Handel’s Messiah and the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra for an evening of Schubert and Brahms, and appears with the Pacific Vocal Series for its holiday program.
Last season, McIntyre debuted with Detroit Opera in The Handmaid’s Tale (Janine/Ofwarren) and returned to Bard SummerScape for Die ägyptische Helena (Aithra), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Konstanze), Mozart’s “Exsultate, jubilate,” and Mysliveček’s “Palesar vorrei col pianto.” She also returned to San Francisco Opera for Parsifal (Flower Maiden). Concert debuts included the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, The Philadelphia Orchestra in The Glorious Sounds of Christmas, Kansas City Symphony in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and South Bend Symphony Orchestra in Carmina Burana. In the summer, she returned to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis for The Pirates of Penzance (Mabel).
In the 24/25 season, McIntyre debuted at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tytania) and OrpheusPDX in Il sogno di Scipione (Fortuna), and returned to Opera Santa Barbara for La fille du régiment (Marie). She made her Los Angeles Philharmonic debut as soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream under Gustavo Dudamel, with performances in Los Angeles, New York, and Bogotá. Other orchestral highlights included her New York Philharmonic debut in Boulez’s Pli selon pli: Improvisations sur Mallarmé I & II under David Robertson; a return to Bard Music Festival for Martinů’s Petrklíč; Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and Strauss’s Four Last Songs with The Orchestra Now; Handel’s Messiah with the Erie Philharmonic; and Carmina Burana with the Grant Park Music Festival.
Other operatic engagements include joining the roster of San Francisco Opera for Die Zauberflöte and Innocence; Die Zauberflöte (Königin der Nacht) with Toledo Opera and Opera Grand Rapids; Le nozze di Figaro (Barbarina) with Arizona Opera; and Jenůfa (Jano) with The Santa Fe Opera. She has also appeared at Bard SummerScape in Die schweigsame Frau (Aminta) and Tulsa Opera in Don Giovanni (Zerlina), Into the Woods (Cinderella), and Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince (Water). A frequent collaborator with Opera Santa Barbara, she has performed Semele (title role), La scala di seta (Giulia), and Don Pasquale (Norina), among others.
On the concert stage, McIntyre has sung Carmina Burana with the Seattle Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with the American Symphony Orchestra in Strauss’s Daphne (title role) under Leon Botstein and has appeared in chamber performance with Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate and Tulsa’s Signature Symphony.
McIntyre is the recipient of awards from the Gerda Lissner Foundation, Jensen Foundation, and Shoshana Foundation. She was a Young Artist with the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera and an Apprentice Artist with The Santa Fe Opera.
2026-2027
