High soprano Jeanine Thames…....was the very best among the singers, accurate and sweet of voice, and winning in her characterization of Miss Wordsworth, the head teacher.
—The Gay City News
Jeanine Thames has made appearances in opera, concert and recital throughout the U.S. Europe and Japan since beginning her career in 1987. Her soprano has been described as “silvery” and “soaring” and she has received international praise from critics for both her dramatic and comedic acting skills on the operatic stage.
In 2007, Miss Thames sang the role of Micaëla in Carmen with the Shreveport Opera. She was heard in recital with the Puccini Foundation and Voces Intimae in Dallas, and she appeared in a Gala Concert at the International Music Festival Český Krumlov in the Czech Republic. In the summer of 2006 Jeanine Thames appeared in the world premiere of The Greater Good by Stephen Hartke at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival. The production, based on the Maupassant story, “Boule de Suif” garnished rave reviews throughout the national and international press. Miss Thames also appeared in 2006 with the Lancaster Symphony, PA singing the Mozart Requiem and in a Gala Concert with the Johnstown Symphony, PA.
In the 2005-2006 season, Miss Thames was heard with numerous symphony orchestras, including the Norwalk Symphony (Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony), the Xalapa Symphony (Haydn’s Creation) and the Monterey Symphony ( Carmina Burana). She sang the role of Miss Wordworth in Albert Herring with New York’s Gotham Chamber Opera and she sang the title role in La Traviata with Opera Ontario.
In the 2004-2005 season Miss Thames appeared in Tokyo and Osaka, singing Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte with the Prague State Opera. She also sang Clorinda in both the Dallas Opera and Kentucky Opera productions of La Cenerentola. In concert Miss Thames was heard as soloist in Elijah with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and in the Fauré Requiem with the Symphony of Southeast Texas. She was featured, as well, in a Gala Concert with the Shreveport Opera.
In recent seasons, Miss Thames sang the role of Leïla in The Pearlfishers, and Violetta in La Traviata with Arizona Opera. She has appeared in recital at University of Georgia in Athens, and with the Blue Candlelight Society, The Puccini Foundation, and Voces Intimae… all in Dallas. Miss Thames has sung the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Minnesota Opera, Cleveland Opera, and Ft. Worth Opera, and she has sung Gilda in Rigoletto with Cleveland Opera, Palm Beach Opera and Düsseldorf Opera.
She has been heard as Queen of the Night at the Paris National Opera, Vancouver Opera, Atlanta Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, Düsseldorf Opera, and Munich’s Bayerische Opera. In Düsseldorf she also sang the title role in the premiere of a new production of La Fille du Régiment as well as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier. With Brussels’ Royal Opera de la Monnaie and Tel Aviv’s New Israeli Opera she performed Victor Ullman’s critically acclaimed opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis. With Bilbao Opera in Spain she sang the roles of Elisetta in Il Matrimonio Segreto and Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
In concert, in Europe, Miss Thames sang in a Gala New Year’s Concert, broadcast live on television, with the Leipzig Radio Orchestra (MDR) in Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, and she sang with the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra on numerous occasions. In the U.S., she has performed Carmina Burana with many orchestras including the symphonies of St. Louis, Detroit, Phoenix, Charlotte, Columbus, and Omaha.
In addition to the above-mentioned roles, Miss Thames has enjoyed success as Musetta in La Bohème, Nannetta in Falstaff, Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore, Baby Doe in The Ballad of Baby Doe, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Juliette in Roméo et Juliette with opera houses in the States and abroad. She has worked with esteemed conductors such as Mario Bernardi, Richard Bonynge, James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach, Manfred Honeck, Eduardo Mueller, Alessandro Siciliani, and Marcello Viotti.
She can be heard on three CD releases: Most recently, The Greater Good, recorded live at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival (on the Naxos label) Die Entführung aus dem Serail, recorded live at the Würzburg Mozart Festival (on the Capriccio label), and Behold the Sun, a group of works by the composer Alexander Goehr, recorded with the London Sinfonietta (on the Unicorn Kanchana label).
Jeanine Thames hails from Beaumont, Texas, and is a graduate of Lamar University (B.M.) and The Juilliard School (M.M.) She resides in Plano, Texas with her husband, tenor, Allan Glassman, and their eight-year-old son Ben.
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