May 4, 2019 at 7:30 pm
& May 5, 2019 at 2:00 pm
6101 University Ave, Halifax Jane Archibald’s career trajectory has taken her from Canada to San Francisco to the Vienna State Opera and major opera houses on both continents.
After beginning her professional opera career in her native Canada, Jane was an Adler Fellow and Merola participant with the San Francisco Opera. She then moved to the Vienna State Opera as a member of the ensemble, debuting many coloratura roles.
The 2017/18 saw Jane performing frequently with the Canadian Opera Company as their first-ever Artist-in Residence, singing the roles of Zdenka in Arabella, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and the title role in The Nightingale and other Short Fables. She also performed Carmina Burana with the Orquesta Nacional d’Espana in Madrid and Armida in Rinaldo, on tour with the English Concert.
The 2018/19 season will find Jane performing le Feu/ la Princesse/ le Rossignol in L'enfant et les sortilèges at the BBC Proms and Lucerne Festival under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, her role debut as Mathilde in Theater an der Wien’s production of William Tell, as Cunégonde in Candide with both the London Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and as the title role in Oper Frankfurt’s Daphne. She will also give numerous concert performances including in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Orchestre National de Lyon; Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with Symphony Nova Scotia, and Britten’s Les Illuminations and Grieg’s Peer Gynt with the Oregon Symphony.
Her many concert highlights include Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate with Lorin Mazel and the Orchestra of La Scala, Brahms’ Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson-Thomas, Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi with Christian Thielemann and the Berlin Philharmonic and Mozart arias with the Camerata Salzburg and Louis Langrée.
Jane has featured on multiple recordings and DVDs. Her first solo CD, a programme of Haydn coloratura arias, was released on the ATMA Classique label and won a JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year. A newly released recording of Die Entführung aus dem Serail (June 2016) with conductor Jéremie Rhorer, is receiving rave reviews, as is her recording of Messiaen's Poèmes pour Mi with Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony.
Full biography can be found on https://imgartists.com/roster/jane-archibald/
