JEANNE IRELAND

mezzo-soprano

Jeanne Ireland, mezzo soprano, recently finished her tenure at the Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris. This season, Ms. Ireland will return to Paris for four productions, including the title role in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges in January, 2020 at the Palais Garnier. As a member of the Académie, she sang in galas at the Palais Garnier, performed as Prince Orlofksy in the Académie’s productions of Die Fledermaus and the role of Stubenmädchen in Philippe Boesmans’s Reigen, and participated in masterclasses with Philippe Jordan and Sondra Radvanovsky.

In the Fall of 2018, Ms. Ireland sang Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzer and Op. 91 Zwei Gesänger at the Festival Le Grange au Lac in Évian, France. With the Orchestre national de France, Ms. Ireland sang in Bernstein’s Songfest at the esteemed Maison de Radio France in November 2018. In January of 2019, Ms. Ireland made her main-stage debut in Paris, singing the Kitchen Boy in l’Opéra de Paris’s Rusalka. Ms. Ireland recently made her Canadian debut at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, in which she sang Respighi’s Il Tramonto with the Quator Danel.

Ms. Ireland is a recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant, through the Shoshana Foundation, as well as the 2018 winner of the Prix du Cercle Carpeaux. She is a graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, the University of Denver in Denver, CO, with further studies at the Wolf Trap Opera Studio in Vienna, VA, and the Aspen Music Festival and School in Aspen, CO.