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March 18, 2012 - Lincoln Center
Soloist - Soprano
American soprano Jennifer Aylmer has developed a sterling reputation for her beautiful voice, compelling stage portrayals, and impeccable musicianship. The New York Times has hailed her for her, "awesome accuracy," while The Chicago Sun-Times has recommended that listeners, "bask in the aural delight of Aylmer's dazzling shifts from regal command to cool insouciance and fatally attractive seduction." This season also marks her directorial debut with Stony Brook State University. Her upcoming engagements include a return to Portland Opera as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, performances of Despina in Cosí fan tutte for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, in addition to concerts with the Haydn Orchestra and Kansas City Symphony. Recently, Jennifer made her debut singing Monica in The Medium with Spoleto Festival USA. Ms Aylmer also returned by popular demand to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, with Baritone Randall Scarlata, and Pianist Laura Ward in their Tin Pan Alley concert, and repeated the program again in the fall of 2010.
Ms. Aylmer was recently seen in the title role of Rodelinda with Portland Opera, as Martha in the new opera John Brown with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, as Hannah in Opera New Jersey's The Merry Widow, and as Gretel in Hansel und Gretel for her Atlanta Opera debut, which she also covered for the Metropolitan Opera. Concert engagements included appearances with Lyric Fest!, the Sarasota Performing Arts series, Sing for Hope, SEFoS' "The Great Escape", and NYFOS' "No Song is Safe from Us" concert. The 2009-2010 season saw Ms. Aylmer returning to the Metropolitan Opera to cover the roles of Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Mme. Pdtochina's Daughter in The Nose, singing An American Songbook concert with Lyric Fest concert series, and returning to the Alabama Symphony for Mozart's Requiem. Engagements for the 2008-2009 season included the title role in Semele with Florentine Opera, Kathie in The Student Prince with Nashville Opera, Mařenka in The Bartered Bride with Opera Boston, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Green Mountain Festival. In the 2006-2007 season Ms. Aylmer returned to both New York City Opera as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel and the Metropolitan Opera as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, sang Rosasharn in The Grapes of Wrath at Utah Opera, and debuted with both the Phoenix Symphony as Gretel and with San Diego Symphony in Mozart's Exultate, Jubilate, Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras, and Mahler's Symphony No. 4.
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