About Jenny
Award-winning soprano Jenny Ribeiro has been seen on opera, concert and recital stages throughout the United States and Europe. Trained as a classical pianist and clarinetist as well as a singer, she spent several seasons in musical theater before switching her focus to opera.
This season, 26/27, Jenny returns to Elkhart County Symphony as the soprano soloist in Verdi's Requiem, as well as starring in Car Stars: The Musical, an original musical about the Detroit auto industry at Michigan's Meadow Brook Theater. She will be seen as the soprano soloist in Verdi vs Wagner in Concord, NH with The Berlin Wagner Group and will be a part of several events and concerts with Detroit Opera.
Recently, Jenny was seen on stage as Ortlinde in in Die Walküre with New York Dramatic Voices, covered Lady Macbeth and Dama in Verdi’s original 1847 version of Macbeth with Teatro Nuovo at New York City Center and joined Detroit’s newest opera company Opera de Metro, where she covered Countess in The Marriage of Figaro and made her role debut as First Lady in The Magic Flute. She was also seen in concerts with Detroit Opera and the Berlin Wagner Group, was the soprano soloist in Mahler’s Second Symphony at Elkhart County Symphony and premiered and recorded several 21st century vocal works. She also toured her newest cabaret show, Fables and Fairytales, to venues such as the Albion Arts Center and Albion College.
Jenny has performed with Bard Summerscape Theater, Opera Noire of New York, Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra, Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Bremerton Symphony Orchestra, The Collegiate Chorale, New York Virtuoso Singers, Hudson Valley Singers, and Altoona Symphony Orchestra, among others. She has sung the roles of Third Norn (Götterdämmerung), Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Lady Billows (Albert Herring), Geraldine (A Hand of Bridge), Elvira (The Song of Norway, her Carnegie Hall solo debut) and Nella (Gianni Schicchi). Jenny’s opera repertoire also includes Mimi and Musetta (La Boheme), and Elsa (Lohengrin). An enthusiastic interpreter of new music, Jenny appeared as Martha in the premier of God Bless Everyone by Thomas Pasatieri at Dicapo Opera and recorded Matt Frey’s chamber opera One-Eleven Heavy, released by Navona Records.
On the concert stage, Jenny has been a soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, the Verdi Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Brahm’s Requiem and many others with Reformed Church in Bronxville, Westchester Choral Society, New Jersey Oratorio Society, Danbury Concert Chorus, Hudson Chorale, and Elkhart County Symphony.
In 2023/24, Jenny made several role and house debuts, which included singing Nina in Pasatieri's The Seagull with Toronto's Opera by Request and covering Mrs. McNeill in Missy Mazzoli's Breaking the Waves at Detroit Opera. She also continued her association with the Berlin Wagner Group in their Boston concert "Wagner's Women: Archetypes and Inspirations". Other concert work included recitals with the Lansing New Music Forum and at Grace United Methodist Church in Lansing.
Jenny has received grants from The Olga Forrai Foundation, as well as numerous awards, including First Prize in the 2023 Birmingham International Music Competition, The Emerging Artist Prize in the 2023 Opera MODO Detroit Artist Competition, Third Prize in the 2022 Medici International Music Competition and was a semi-finalist at the 2022 Corsica Lirica International Opera Competition in Corsica, France.
