Soprano Jana McIntyre is a George and Nora London Foundation Competition Award Winner as well as a Finalist in The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. In the 2024–25 season she debuts at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and returns to Opera Santa Barbara as Marie in La fille du régiment. On the concert stage, she debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as the soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with performances in Los Angeles, New York, and Bogotà.
Ms. McIntyre began last season with a return to Opera Santa Barbara for La Divina: The Art of Maria Callas. Additional season engagements included debuts with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for Carmina Burana, and Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra for a Rodgers and Hammerstein celebration. Additionally, she joined the roster of the San Francisco Opera for Die Zauberflöte and Innocence.
In the 2022–23 season, Ms. McIntyre returned to Opera Santa Barbara as Giulia in Rossini’s comic one-act La scala di seta, and to Tulsa Opera as Cinderella in Into the Woods. She debuted Carmina Burana with the Santa Barbara Symphony and the Seattle Symphony. Additional concerts included her Carnegie Hall debut with the American Symphony Orchestra as the title role in Richard Strauss’ rarely heard Daphne conducted by Music Director Leon Botstein. In 2021–22, she sang the title role in Semele with Opera Santa Barbara, as well as Aminta in Die Schweigsame Frau in a new production at Bard SummerScape. With The Rally Cat in New York City, she created the role of Marianne in a recording and workshop of Aferidan Stephens and Marella Martin Koch’s Elinor and Marianne, based on the Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility. She also performed in chamber concerts with Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate and Tulsa’s Signature Symphony.
Jana McIntyre will perform with The Orchestra Now on August 10, 2024 and September 14 & 15, 2024.
Bio: Aug 2024