Jennifer France

Soprano Jennifer France, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, was awarded the Critics’ Circle Emerging Talent Award in 2018 and had already won the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize in 2014. She has performed at venues including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Scottish Opera in Glasgow, Opera Holland Park in London, Music Theatre Wales, La Nuova Musica in Florence, and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. The singer is particularly dedicated to contemporary music; she participated in the world premiere of George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence as well as the UK premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Passion. She sang the role of Ophelia in Brett Dean’s Hamlet and Ice in Stuart Mac Rae’s Anthropocene. Her classical repertoire includes roles such as Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Esmeralda (The Bartered Bride), Adele (Die Fledermaus), 1st Niece (Peter Grimes), and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro).

The 2025/26 season sees Jennifer France sing Tytania in Peter Hall’s production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream during Glyndebourne’s Autumn season. She will also return to the Royal Opera House, London, to appear as First Niece in Deborah Warner’s production of Peter Grimes, and to Garsington Opera to sing Cecily Cardew in Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

On the concert stage, Jennifer joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Edward Gardner for Hans Abrahamsen’s Let Me Tell You. She performs Ligeti’s Requiem first with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Orchestre de Paris, and subsequently at the Berwaldhallen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Further highlights include New Year’s concerts with Nil Venditti and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.