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Jennifer Check
Celebrated by the New York Times for her “rare talent that can send chills down a listener's spine even in familiar music,” Jennifer Check returns to the Metropolitan Opera in the 2010-11 season for Voce dal Ciel in Don Carlo. Other future engagements for her include Almera in the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters with Gotham Chamber Opera and subsequent performances in her return to the Opera Company of Philadelphia and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. In the 2009-10 season, she sang her first performances of Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. She also returned to the Metropolitan Opera to reprise Nella in Gianni Schicchi, the Priestess in Aida, and the Fifth Maid in Elektra in addition to singing Marianna in Der Rosenkavalier and Dorotea in Stiffelio and to the Utah Symphony for Verdi’s Requiem and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra for Rossini’s Stabat Mater and joined the Phoenix Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
She made a triumphant debut as Iphigenie in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride when stepping in mid-performance at the Palau de les Artes Reina Sofía in Valencia. Other recent performances include the title role of Norma with Palm Beach Opera and the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites with Austin Lyric Opera, Lady Billows in Albert Herring under the baton of Lorin Maazel for the inaugural performances of the Castleton Festival, and Clorinda in La cenerentola at Spoleto Festival U.S.A. She has also joined Tokyo Opera Nomori as the Fifth Maid in Elektra as well as for concert performances of Chrysothemis in the same opera under the baton of Seiji Ozawa and has since joined James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra for further performances of the Fifth Maid at Tanglewood. With Opera Orchestra of New York, she sang Agathe in Der Freischütz and Mathilde in Guillaume Tell in young artist performances.
A frequent presence at the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Check has previously joined the company for Liu in Turandot in the company’s famed Parks performances, Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lisa in Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as productions of The Nose, Elektra, Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor, and on tour at the Salzburg Festival as the Flower Maiden in Parsifal. A former member of the prestigious Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, she made her company debut as Clotilde in Norma.
On the concert stage, Ms. Check has excelled in further performances of Verdi’s Requiem with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Washington Chorus, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., and Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. She has also joined James Levine at the Verbier Festival for Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra for Mahler’s Symphonies No. 2 and No. 8, Utah Symphony and Spoleto Festival U.S.A. for Vaughn Willams’ Dona nobis pacem, Colorado Music Festival for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Charlotte Symphony for Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Spoleto Festival U.S.A. for Beethoven’s Mass in C, and the Greensboro Symphony for Orff’s Carmina Burana. She made her Carnegie Hall debut singing Messiah with the Oratorio Society of New York and later performed Barber’s Prayers of Kirkegaard with the same ensemble, joined the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia for Mozart’s Requiem and Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42, and performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with LinkUp! at Carnegie Hall. Additionally, she made debuts in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in and at The Kennedy Center presenting solo recitals on the Young Concert Artists series.
Jennifer Check is an alumnus of The Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia where she performed her first Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. She received a Bachelor of Music Degree in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir College. The soprano’s accolades include first place awards from the Loren L. Zachary Competition, Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition, Liederkranz Foundation, and the Mario Lanza Scholarship Auditions. She was awarded a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation, the Zarzuela Prize in Placido Domingo’s Operalia Competition, and the Leonie Rysanek memorial prize from the George London Foundation.
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