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Jenny Knapp,
mezzo-soprano, has been praised by critics as “a strong singer and an
empathetic actress” possessing “a beautiful voice, with a stylish sense
of stage presence that is at once impassioned but poised”. “Her
mezzo-soprano voice is gorgeous through its entire range.” Ms. Knapp was
heard most recently as the mezzo-soprano soloist in Verdi’s Requiem,
and as Carmen in Opera Pacifica’s performance of Carmen. A
frequent guest of the Seattle Symphony, Ms. Knapp will be heard this
season as the soloist in Samuel Jones’ Four Haiku. With the
Seattle Symphony, she was recently heard as Jessie in the their
performance of Kurt Weill’s The Little Mahagonny, the soloist in
the World Premiere of Bruce Ruddell’s The Healing Heart of
Lushootseed, and portrayed the title character in excerpts from
Bizet’s Carmen. She was the featured soloist in Falla’s El
Amor Brujo as well as his Three-Cornered Hat with Gerard
Schwarz. For two seasons, Ms. Knapp starred as the Mother in the
Symphony’s production of Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Ms. Knapp is a versatile performer who has performed
extensively with opera companies throughout the region, including Tacoma
Opera, Washington East Opera, Skagit Opera, Opera Pacifica, Lyric Opera
Northwest, Off-Center Opera, Rogue Opera, NOISE, University of
Washington Opera, and Rainier Lyric Opera. Her operatic credits include
Cherubino in Le Nozze di
Figaro, Charlotte in
Werther,
Suzuki and Kate Pinkerton in
Madama Butterfly, Santuzza in
Cavalleria Rusticana,
Carmen and Mercedes in Carmen,
Hansel and the Mother in
Hansel and Gretel, The Mother
in Amahl and the Night
Visitors, Dorabella in
Cosi Fan Tutte,
The Third Lady and The First Lady in The Magic Flute, Dame
Quickly in Falstaff, Michelle Ravel in John Duffy’s Black
Water, Cecily in La Divina, and Clara Deluso in Signor
Deluso.
On the concert stage this season, Ms. Knapp will be
performing the Mussorgsky
Songs and Dances of Death
with the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra. She was recently heard as the
alto soloist in Bach’s Mass in
B Minor with Kirkland Choral
Society. Also with Kirkland Choral Society, she has performed the role
of Mary in Respighi’s Laud to
the Nativity, as well as the
alto solos in both Haydn’s
Nelson Mass and Mendelssohn’s
Lobgesang
(Symphony #2). She recently appeared as the alto soloist in both
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
and Falla’s Three Cornered Hat
with Port Angeles Symphony. Other concert appearances include the alto
soloist in Mozart’s Missa
Brevis, the Angel and the
Queen in Mendelssohn’s Elijah,
and the alto soloist in Mozart’s
Requiem
and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater
with the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and Choral Sounds Northwest.
In recording, Ms. Knapp can be heard as the alto soloist in
Kirkland Choral Society’s 2008 recording of the Bach Mass in B Minor,
and on Matt Messina’s 2000 album from Sapristi Productions, The Boy
Who Held the World in the lyrical song “Adonde Fuiste”.
Ms. Knapp earned her
Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and
studied in the Master’s program in music at the University of
Washington. She currently resides in Renton, WA and is part of the
musicians’ collective Northwest Artists. |