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Georgia Jarman
Hailed by the New York Times for her “luminous, appealing, and agile voice,” and crystalline coloratura, Georgia Jarman sings her first performances of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in a return to Dallas Opera and the Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro with Nashville Opera. She also returns to her acclaimed portrayal of Violetta in La traviata with Minnesota Opera and to the Atlanta Symphony orchestra for performances of Bach’s Cantata No. 106 and excerpts of La bohème with Robert Spano conducting. Last season, her performances included Violetta in La traviata with Den Nye Opera as well as returns to Florentine Opera for Gilda in Rigoletto, Cincinnati Opera for Musetta in La bohème, Palm Beach Opera for Micaela in Carmen, Portland Opera for Eurydice in Philip Glass’ Orphée, and both Opera Grand Rapids and Pensaola Opera for Nedda in I pagliacci in addition returning to the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for its production of Il barbiere di Siviglia. She also joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for Handel’s Messiah and the Portland Symphonic Choir for Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem.
A sought-after artist in bel canto repertoire, she has appeared numerous times at Caramoor Music Festival with Will Crutchfield and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s including most recently, as Adina in L’elisir d’amore. Her previous engagements at the Caramoor Music Festival Amenaide in Tancredi Violetta in La traviata as well as the title role in Handel’s Deidamia, Norina in Don Pasquale, and Amina in La sonnambula. She joined Crutchfield again in her debut with Opera de Colombia for Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, a role she has also sung with New York City Opera along with Adina in L’elisir d’amore, and Portland Opera and has sung Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Florentine Opera and Marie in La fille du regiment also with Florentine Opera and Indianapolis Opera. She made her European debut as Amelia in Gustave III Ou Le Bal Masque at L'Opéra de Metz in France, following which Opéra International exclaimed, "Georgia Jarman, impeccable singing, velvet timbre, is the most seductive and the most touching Amelie that one could dream of.”
The soprano recently joined Polish National Opera, reprising her celebrated performances of Amenaide in Tancredi in addition to Mathilde in Guillaume Tell and the Three Heroines in Les contes d'Hoffmann. Her performances with Opera de Colombia also include Three Heroines in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Mimi in La bohème, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. She has been a frequent presence on the stage of New York City Opera for numerous other roles that include Cunegonde in Candide, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, and Mélisande in Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bleue. Among her other recent engagements are further performances of the Three Heroines in Les contes d’Hoffmann with Boston Lyric Opera, Madame Mao in Nixon in China with Cincinnati Opera, the title role in Thais and Violetta in La traviata with Palm Beach Opera, Elisetta in a new production of Il matrimonio segreto directed by Jonathan Miller at Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Mimi in La bohème with New Orleans Opera. She has also joined Dallas Opera for Antonia and Olympia in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Opera Grand Rapids for Violetta in La Traviata, and Gotham Chamber Opera for Fortuna in Mozart's Il sogno di Scipione.
On the concert stage, he has previously joined Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra of performances of Musetta in La bohème (released commercially on the Telarc label) and has returned for Orff’s Carmina burana and excerpts of Il barbiere di Siviglia. She also made her Avery Fisher Hall debut as Rozenn in Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys with the American Symphony Orchestra.
She received a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and her Bachelor of Music from Boston University.
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