The multifaceted, Montreal-born Canadian soprano Jennifer Maines, has sung in world-renowned opera houses and orchestras in Canada, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Austria. From 2003 to 2016 she was a member of the Tirolean State Theater Innsbruck, where she sang more than 65 roles. Most recently (October 2023) Ms. Maines returned to her homeland where she successfully debuted the exciting and challenging role of Brünnhilde in Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre at Pacific Opera Victoria. She returns to Tyrolean State Theatre in Spring 2024 to perform Frau Pusebach in Paul Lincke’s operetta Frau Luna, with performances continuing into the 2024-25 season.
Her impressive repertoire of opera roles includes Ellen Orford, The Duchess (Powder Her Face), Salome, Maddalena (Andrea Chenier), Tosca, Minnie (La Fanciulla der West), Cassandre (Les Troyens), Manon Lescaut, Jenufa, Wally (La Wally), Marietta (Die Tote Stadt), Fidelio, Turandot, and Chimène in Massenet’s seldom performed French epic opera Le Cid. Ms. Maines has gradually built up an impressive list of Wagner roles, including Freia (Das Reingold), Senta (Der Fliegende Holländer), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Venus (Tannhäuser-both pariser, dresdner versions), Adriano (Rienzi) and Kundry (Parsifal). For her intense and successful interpretation of Kundry, Ms. Maines won the prestigious ‘Golden Schikaneder’ in the 2015 Austrian Music Theater Prize in Vienna, in the category of ‘Best Female Leading Role’.
Ms. Maines has also enjoyed critical acclaim on both the operetta and the music theatre stages, singing leading ladies such as Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Sylvia Varescu (Die Csardasfürstin), Laura (Der Betterlstudent), Anna Leonowens (The King and I), Fantine (Les Miserables), Aldonza (The Man from la Mancha) and Nancy (Oliver).
January 2024
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