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in 2008, and is already making many important debuts. With the New York City Opera, she made
her company debut as Musetta in La Bohème in April 2006, and returned as Micäela in Carmen in
October of 2007. She made her Santa Fe Opera debut as Micäela in Carmen during the 2006
summer season, and returned for her role debut as Mimi in La Bohème summer 2007. The Santa
Fe New-Mexican said, “Jennifer Black was a revelation as Mimi. Her soprano was gleaming and
glorious, with wonderful nuances of light and shade and complete dynamic control. She showed the
little seamstress’s shyness, archness and saucy ardor perfectly, and her arias were meltingly sung.
Her sad Act III duet with Corey McKern...was one of the best I’ve ever heard.”
In the fall 2008, she made her Los Angeles Opera debut as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Suor
Genovieffa in Suor Angelica in a new production of Il Trittico, returned to the Metropolitan Opera for
Queen of Spades, as well as Carmina Burana with New Choral Society, and Schumann duets with
Matthew Plenk and the MET Chamber Ensemble in Weill Recital Hall with James Levine at the piano.
Completing the current season, she performs Lisa in La Sonnambula, Mlle. Jouvenot in Adriana
Lecouvreur, and covers Bianca in La Rondine at the Metropolitan Opera, and reprises the role of
Mimi in La Bohème with the Greater Bridgeport Symphony.
In the summer 2009, she returns to Santa Fe Opera to perform Adina in The Elixir of Love, and in
the 2009-2010 Season and beyond, makes her debut at the Minnesota Opera as Mimi in La
Bohème, makes her role debut as Violetta in La Traviata at the Greensboro Opera, covers Micäela
in Carmen at the MET, and makes her debut at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse in 2 roles: Musetta
in La Bohème and 5th Magd in Elektra.
Additional recent engagements include her role debut as Juliette in Romeo et Juliette with PORT
Opera during summer 2008, the MET’s productions of Ariadne auf Naxos, Carmen, Idomeneo, Don
Carlo, Le Nozze di Figaro, Manon Lescaut and a new production of Suor Angelica under the baton
of Maestro James Levine. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2008 in a concert with harpist Grace
Gloutier, and performed in the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program as Nella in Gianni Schicchi,
Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica and Musetta. A graduate of the Yale School of Music, Ms. Black
performed the title roles of Kat’a Kabanova and Suor Angelica, as well as Helena in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.
A native of Houston, Texas, Ms. Black was recently awarded a 2008 Opera Index Award, a 2007
George London/Leonie Rysanek Award and received second place in the 2007 Loren L. Zachary
Society Competition. She was also a 2000 Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards finalist, a
recipient of a 2005 Sullivan Grant, and a finalist in the Dallas Opera Guild Competition, the Houston
Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition, the Connecticut Opera Guild, and the MacAllister
Awards.