American soprano Jenny Ribeiro uses her “bright instrument and engaging personality” (Voce di meche) to delight audiences throughout the world. Trained as a classical pianist and clarinetist as well as a singer, she spent several seasons in musical theater before switching her focus to opera.

This season, 2023/24, Jenny makes several role and house debuts, including Nina in Thomas Pasatieri’s The Seagull with Toronto’sOpera by Requestand covering Mother in Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves atDetroit Opera. She also continues her association withBerlin Wagner Groupin their Boston concert “Wagner’s Women: Archetypes and Inspirations”. Other concert work includes recitals with theLansing New Music Forumand atGrace United Methodist Churchin Lansing.

Jenny has performed withBard Summerscape Theater,Dicapo Opera,Opera Noire of New York,Amore Opera,Regina Opera,Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra,The Collegiate Chorale,New York Virtuoso Singers,Hudson Valley Singers, andAltoona Symphony Orchestra, among others. She has sung the roles of Third Norn (Götterdämmerung), Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Elvira (The Song of Norway, herCarnegie Hallsolo debut) and Nella (Gianni Schicchi). Jenny’s opera repertoire also includes Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Mimi (La Boheme), Michaela (Carmen), and Elsa (Lohengrin). An enthusiastic interpreter of new music, Jenny appeared as Martha in the premier of God Bless Everyone by Thomas Pasatieri and recorded Matt Frey’s chamber opera One-Eleven Heavy, released byNavona Records.

On the concert stage, Jenny has been a soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Handel’s Messiah, the Verdi Requiem, and the Mozart Requiem withReformed Church in Bronxville,Westchester Choral Society,New Jersey Oratorio Society, andDanbury Concert Chorus.

In the 2022/2023 Season, Jenny toured the U.S. with her recital “From the Hearts of Women.” She also sang the soprano solos in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony withElkhart County Symphony, Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio withHudson Chorale, Handel’s Messiah withGrace United Methodist Churchin Lansing, MI and Brahm’s Requiem with theWestchester Choral Society. Other performances included concerts withBremerton West Sound Symphony, premiers withUniversity of Michigan’s Concert Bandand a cabaret concert at Michigan State University’sFacility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Laboratoryas part of their yearly concert series.

In 2022, Jenny received her Master’s in Voice atMichigan State University, where she performed Geraldine/The Mother (A Hand of Bridge/L’enfant et les sortilèges) and Lady Billows (Albert Herring), and toured with MSU’s Vocal Outreach. She also debuted three Wagnerian roles (Ortlinde, Wellgunde and Waldvogel) at once forBerlin Wagner Group’s “Wagner’s Ring in One Evening.” Jenny has recieved grants fromThe Olga Forrai Foundation, as well as numerous awards, including First Prize in the2023 Birmingham International Music Competition, The Emerging Artist Prize in the2023 Opera MODO Detroit Artist Competition, Third Prize in the2022 Medici International Music Competitionand was a semi-finalist at the2022 Corsica Lirica International Opera Competitionin Corsica, France.