Award-winning soprano Jennifer Witton is a graduate of the Guildhall Opera School.
Following various roles and covers for Glyndebourne, she performed the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon in performances for both the festival and the tour. She also works for the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Opera North and Wexford Festival Opera. Role and cover highlights include Micaëla/Carmen, Gilda/Rigoletto, La Musica & Euridice/L’Orfeo, Lucia/Rape of Lucretia, Madame Herz/Der Schauspieldirektor, Aphrodite/Phaedra, Anna/Die sieben Todsünden and Lauretta/Gianni Schicchi.
Equally at home on the concert platform, performance highlights include concerts at the Barbican Hall, Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Edinburgh Fringe and Oxford Lieder Festival. She has worked with conductors such as Marin Alsop, John Wilson and Martyn Brabbins and has given recitals alongside pianists Simon Lepper, Iain Burnside and Graham Johnson.
She is the recipient of the prestigious GSMD Gold Medal, won first prize at the inaugural ‘Opera: By Voice Alone’ competition and won the Royal Overseas League Roderick Lakin Award. Highlights this season include her debut of Strauss’ Four Last Songs at St John’s Smith Square in London, Glyndebourne Tour Mozart workshops, returning to ENO to cover Micaëla in Carmen, performances of Haydn’s Creation and The Seasons and song recitals at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.