Jennifer Zetlan

Soprano Jennifer Zetlan is internationally recognized for her artistry and captivating stage presence, known for being “persuasive and powerful”, “flawless” (The New York Times), and a “tour de force” (Wall Street Journal). Last season, she was seen as Eurydice in the deaf opera project Orpheus & Erica with Victory Hall Opera and as Trujamán in Manuel de Falla’s El retablo del maese Pedro at the Kennedy Center with PostClassical Ensemble. Additionally, she gave the world premiere of Tribute to the Angels, a piece written for her by Louis Karchin with the Talea Ensemble and appeared at the New Voices Festival with the Brooklyn Art Song Society and the Riverside Orchestra, singing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. In the upcoming season, Ms.

Zeltan joins the American Lyric Theater for their popular InsightALT series as Tzeitl in Tevye’s Daughters and Madame Alice in Working for the Macbeths. Ms. Zetlan took part in several pandemic-based projects, including a multi-continent live Zoom production of Noor Inayat Khan’s Aède of the Ocean and Land, presented by the Center for Contemporary Opera, and a phone-opera-for-one production of To My Distant Beloved with On Site Opera. The 2019-2020 season included the reprise of her role as Ellen in Ricky Ian Gordon and Frank Bidart’s Ellen West with the Prototype Festival and a reprise of her role as Ginsburg in Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg with Opera Carolina and Opera Grand Rapids. Other recent season highlights include joining the San Francisco Symphony as Xenia in Boris Godunov with Michael Tilson Thomas, appearing as soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with the Kansas City Symphony, Fauré’s Requiem at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Ginsburg in Scalia/Ginsburg with Opera Delaware.