Jennifer Larmore is an American mezzo-soprano born 21 June 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia, who trained at Westminster Choir College and with Regina Resnik before making her professional debut in 1986 at the Opéra de Nice in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1995 as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, having already appeared at Carnegie Hall the previous year, and built a career centered on the coloratura and bel canto repertoire of Rossini, Bellini, and Handel.

Larmore won the 1994 Richard Tucker Award, a 1992 Gramophone Award for her title-role recording of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, and the 2007 Grammy for Best Opera Recording for Hansel and Gretel, and she received France’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2002. Beyond her celebrated bel canto roles, she expanded into dramatic soprano repertoire from 2012 onward, singing Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth during the composer’s bicentenary celebrations. A prolific recording artist across more than a dozen solo albums, she has also taught at the Music College of Seoul National University and written on the realities of a freelance singing career.

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