Maria Jette has appeared with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra: the Symphonies of Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Kansas City, Charlotte, Santa Rosa and Buffalo; Vocalessence, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, and Los Angeles Master Chorale; and with original instrument ensembles Portland Baroque Orchestra and The Lyra Concert. She has been a regular guest at the Oregon Bach, Victoria Bach and San Luis Obispo Mozart Festivals, the Oregon Festival of American Music, and on Public Radio International's A Prairie Home Companion.
Her 45+ operatic roles range from Monteverdi's Poppea and Handel's Cleopatra through Mozart's Pamina, Susanna and Fiordiligi. With the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, she created the Mrs. in the May 2002 premiere of Garrison Keillor's operatic excursion, Mr. and Mrs. Olson. She has performed her own production of Seuss/Kapilow's Green Eggs & Ham for more than 35,000 kids around the USA.
This season included Vivaldi's Gloria (Cheyenne Symphony); Bach's Easter Oratorio and Magnificat (Grand Rapids Symphony); Green Eggs & Ham/Gertrude McFuzz (Buffalo (NY) Philharmonic); Latin American song and chamber music (Shedd Institute in Eugene); Bach's Magnificat and Easter Oratorio (Grand Rapids Symphony); and several performances during Vocalessence's Illuminating Bolcom festival. Upcoming: more Grieg shipboard with pianist Sonja Thompson on the Prairie Home Companion's Norwegian cruise; a return engagement with jazz legend Dick Hyman at the Oregon Festival of American Music, Sopranorama VI! at the Southern Theater in August; and Mahler's Symphony #4 (Charlotte Symphony). |
