Jennifer Holloway

In recent years, the American soprano Jennifer Holloway has established herself internationally as one of the leading sopranos in the youthful-dramatic repertoire, and she was able to sustainably reinforce her position with her Bayreuth debut as Sieglinde in Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre.

Holloway begins the 2025-26 season in the title role of Richard Strauss’s Salome, one of her most successful roles to date, in concert performances of the opera with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne and Bucharest. She sings Donna Elvira in Wolfgang Amadè Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, before taking on Elsa in a new production of Wagner’s Lohengrin (Michieletto/Martiotti) at Rome Opera. With her role debut as Barber’s Vanessa, she presents herself for the first time with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in concert performances of the opera of the same name. She joins the Vienna State Opera as Kundry in Wagner’s Parsifal and Hamburg State Opera as Chrysothemis in Strauss’s Elektra. The Bayreuth Festival 2026 has engaged the soprano as Adriano in the festival’s first-ever production of Wagner’s Rienzi.

Highlights of recent seasons include her role debut as Kundry at Oper Frankfurt; her house debut at the Zurich Opera as Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio; Salome at the state operas of Vienna and Berlin as well as at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Chrysothemis, Elisabeth (Wagner’s Tannhäuser), and role debuts as Sieglinde, Senta (Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman), Leonore, and Ellen Orford (Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes) at Hamburg State Opera; Senta at Semperoper Dresden and Bavarian State Opera; Cassandre (Hector Berlioz’s Les Troyens); and Sieglinde in a concert performance with the Orchestre de Paris under Jaap van Zweden and in the Vienna Konzerthaus under Joana Mallwitz.

Holloway began her career as a mezzo-soprano with the great mezzo roles of Mozart and Handel such as Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro), Idamante in Idomeneo, and Irene in Tamerlano at houses such as Teatro Real Madrid and Los Angeles Opera.

In concert, she has appeared in Alexander Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and in Mozart's Mass in C minor under Bertrand de Billy in Dresden, as well as several times in Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder.