Acclaimed for her "rich and sonorous" sound and her "moving and memorable performances” mezzo-soprano Jane Dutton has been engaged and re-engaged in many of the top opera houses in the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu and San Francisco Opera under leading conductors such as Levine, Runnicles, Ozawa and Weigle.
A finalist in Placido Domingo's Operalia 1997 World Opera Competition in Tokyo, Jane Dutton has been awarded prizes in such competitions as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Eastern Regionals, placed second at the MacAllister Competition, the Baltimore Opera Competition, the Puccini Foundation, Opera Index Competition, and first at the Opera at Florham Guild competition.
In the US Jane has sung Jordan Baker in John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby , Stephano Roméo et Juliette and roles in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Lulu, Madama Butterfly, and Rigoletto for the Metropolitam Opera, Composer Ariadne auf Naxos and Sonyetka in Shostakovitch’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk for San Francisco Opera, Sara Roberto Devereux for New York Ciy Opera, Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana with Virginia Opera; Gertrude Hamlet with Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Suzuki Madama Butterfly with Arizona Opera, Meg Page Falstaff with Indianapolis Opera and Amneris Aida in a new production with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and at Pittsburgh Opera.
Jane made her European opera debut at the Gran Teatre Del Liceu in Barcelona as Anne Boleyn in Saint-Saëns' Henry VIII and has been re-engaged by the Liceu each season since her debut for roles including Adalgisa Norma, Pauline Pique Dame, Gertrude Hamlet, Maddalena Rigoletto and Suzuki Madama Butterfly and most recently Jane sang Waltraute Die Walküre (and covered Fricka) alongside Placido Domingo and Waltraud Meier. She made her debut at the Tokyo Opera Nomori in Elektra with Seiji Ozawa and was invited to participate in the 2006 Saito Kinen Festival with Maestro Ozawa subsequently. In the 07-08 season Jane made her UK operatic debut singing Amneris Aida in a new production for English National Opera under Edward Gardner and was immediately invited back for the revival and other roles.
Jane’s orchestral repertoire extends from the Baroque to the contemporary. She has worked with the New York Philharmonic/Kurt Masur, Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz, Colorado Symphony/Marin Alsop, Indianapolis Symphony/Mario Venzago, and at the Prague Autumn Festival with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, which was recorded and nationally. She made her UK concert debut singing Wagner’s Wesendonk Lieder with the BBC Scottish Symphony in September 2006 to critical acclaim which led to an invitation by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Dublin for the same repertoire.
Forthcoming engagements include Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana in a new production directed by Richard Jones for English National Opera, as well as Amneris Aida for the same company, Eboli Don Carlos for Opera North, Madame Larina Eugene Onegin for Pittsburgh Opera, Amneris for Fort Worth Opera.
Jane Dutton is represented by Intermusica worldwide.
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