The young American mezzo-soprano Anna Jablonski has a real flare for the stage with a distinctive timbre to match. "Anna Jablonski with the ardent dark-and-silver tone in Idomeneo... exhibited a high polish and interpretative depth." (San Francisco Spearhead News, Merola Yerba Buena concert).
This season Ms. Jablonski will be making her L.A. Opera (The Fly, under the baton of Placido Domingo), Pittsburgh Opera (The Grapes of Wrath) and Opera Pacific (The Grapes of Wrath) debuts. She will be the mezzo soloist in the Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle with Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue in their 2009 concert season this coming spring. Last month Anna sang the role of Flora in La Traviata with the Savannah Choral Society and Sinfonia where she will return later this year to sing the Mozart Requiem. In NYC this month Ms. Jablonski will sing the world premiere of Alessandro Cadario's Cantata for Revival commissioned by Musica Sacra in performance at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater. She looks forward to a summer in beautiful Aspen, Colorado, with husband, tenor Oliver Mercer, to study repertoire.
Ms. Jablonski spend a good part of this year in the UK where she was performing with Glyndebourne Opera and understudying Nancy in Albert Herring for Glyndebourne On Tour as well as Angelina in La Cenerentola at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival performing under the baton of Maestro Vladimir Jurowski conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for the cover show.
In the 2006-2007 season, Ms. Jablonski participated in the renowned Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with The Oratorio Society as soloist in Honegger's Le Roi David and the Stravinsky Mass, sang the Mozart Requiem with the Tallahassee Symphony, and the Messiah. Anna Jablonski created the role of Mae in the world premiere of The Grapes of Wrath with Minnesota Opera. She was named one of the Regional finalists of the Southeast Metropolitan Opera Auditions in 2006 and is a two-time regional winner of this competition also receiving the Outstanding Mezzo award from Suzanne Mentzer.
As a Resident Artist with the Minnesota Opera from 2002 to 2005, she was heard as Rita in the American premiere of The Handmaid's Tale with Oscar-winning director Eric Simonson, Flora in La Traviata and Mary in Der fliegende Holländer, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia, the Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, the Drummer in The Emperor of Atlantis, Francisca in Maria Padilla, Mercédès in Carmen and Nancy T'ang in Nixon in China with renowned director James Robinson. Ms. Jablonski sang Elgar's Sea Pictures with the Allegro Sinfonia in Minneapolis.
Anna spent summer of 2004 as a member of Chautauqua Opera's Young Artist Program. Active in the Portland (Oregon) cultural scene, she has appeared in various roles with Bel Canto NW, Portland Summer Fest, Astoria Music Festival, PSU Opera Theater, PSU Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra as Nancy in Albert Herring, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte and the title role in La Cenerentola. Her concert repertoire has included Frauenliebe und Leben, Abraham and Isaac, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Bach's Magnificat and Cantata No. 170, and Brahms' Zigeunerlieder.
She was the mezzo soloist (cover) under the baton of Maestro Helmuth Rilling at the International Bachakademie Stuttgart in the Mahler's Symphony No. 2. In 2003 and 2005 she placed first in the Schubert Club competition. Ms. Jablonski's other roles include Dorabella, Susuki, Carmen, Mafio Orsini, and Adalgisa. She has sung for many notable conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Antony Walker, John Keenan, William Crutchfield, Dean Williams, Francesco Maria Colombo, Guido Rumstadt and Helmuth Rilling. Anna Jablonski resides in New York City.
Anna Jablonski
