Acclaimed for her "rich and sonorous" sound and her "moving and memorable performance, full of expression," (Pravo newspaper, Czech Republic), 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.
A finalist in Placido Domingo's Operalia 1997 World Opera Competition in Tokyo, Jane Dutton has been awarded prizes in such competitions at 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.
At the famed Metropolitan Opera, Miss Dutton was praised for her performance as Jordan Baker in John Harbison's The Great Gatsby, which was conducted by James Levine. Her performances in past seasons have ranged from her debut as Stephano Roméo et Juliette to Mrs. Gleaton in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Susannah. Additionally at the MET, she has also appeared in Lulu, Madama Butterfly, and Rigoletto. She added the Composer Ariadne auf Naxos to her repertoire in her first engagement at the San Francisco Opera and was reengaged by the company as Sonyetka in Shostakovitch's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk. She made her New York City Opera debut as Sara Roberto Devereux .
Jane Dutton made her European opera debut at the Gran Teatre Del Liceu in Barcelona as Anne Boleyn in Saint-Saëns' Henry VIII. She has been re-engaged by the Liceu each season since her debut for roles including Adalgisa Norma, Pauline Pique Dame, Gertrude Hamlet, Maddalena in Graham Vick's production of Rigoletto and Suzuki Madama Butterfly. Miss Dutton will return to the Liceu to sing Waltraute in Die Walküre. 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.
Jane Dutton's orchestral repertoire extends from the Baroque to the contemporary. Miss Dutton has worked with the New York Philharmonic/Kurt Masur, Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz, Colorado Symphony/Marin Alsop, Indianapolis Symphony/Mario Venzago, and the Prague Autumn Festival amongst others. She also performed in a concert entitled "The Music of Romeo and Juliet" with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, which was released on compact disc and nationally televised in the Czech Republic. She returned to the Prague Autumn Festival in 2003 to sing Berlioz songs with the Czech Philharmonic, conducted by John Nelson. She made her UK debut singing Wagner's Wesendonk Lieder with the BBC Scottish Symphony.
Recent appearances include Wagner's Wesendonk Lieder with the BBC Scottish Symphony and the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Dublin; 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.
Following Jane’s successful role and UK debut this season as Amneris in the English National Opera’s new production of Aida she has been invited for the revival. Other forthcoming engagements include Waltraute Die Walküre, Gran Teatre del Liceu and Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana in a new production directed by Richard Jones for English National Opera.
Jane Dutton is represented by Intermusica worldwide.
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