Biography

Mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen appeared with the SFS last season as the Nurse in Boris Godunov and alto soloist in J.S. Bach’s Magnificat. She recently performed with Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Island City Opera and the Mendocino Music Festival; American Chamber Opera in Chicago in the title role of Bizet’s Carmen; and with One World Symphony as Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. She has premiered new operas with Riverside Opera, Stonington Opera House, at the Ostrava Days Festival in the Czech Republic, and at the Carolina Chamber Music Festival. She has created and performed new works at London’s Barbican Centre with Ornette Coleman, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara with Meredith Monk, and Carnegie Hall with Philip Glass. Ms. Jensen made her solo debut at Carnegie Hall singing J.S. Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion and later appeared there in Handel's Messiah. Her solo album Who Is Silvie? is available on iTunes. Visit www.silviejensen.com for more information.

(March 2019)