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About Jasmin
American contralto Jasmin White “has it all” (VRT News). Their deep, flexible, warm and agile voice exudes charisma that captures an audience from their first note. White possesses a remarkable versatility, adapting both vocal technique and stage presence to seamlessly navigate diverse genres; they can shift from the light and charming demands of Rossini, requiring "a smile, kindness, cordiality, quietly and with the greatest of ease," to the profound depths of Wagner’s drama. In this realm of Wagnerian mystery and power, their mature voice becomes "beautiful and full of pathos, perfectly in their element”. (Knopskaya, Deknopper from Cultuurpakt). In 2023, they won first place in the Queen Sonja Singing Competition in Norway and second place and the audience-awarded Musiq3 Prize of the Public in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium.
White begins the 25/26 season by performing Duruflé Requiem at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Following this, they will take on the role of Juno in Handel's Semele with Dutch National Opera. They are also set to return to Salzburg as Erda in Wagner's Das Rheingold at the Osterfestspiele Salzburg, also performing the same role later in the season in their debut with Berliner Philharmoniker.
An exciting 24/25 season marked Jasmin White’s first season as a member of the premier Opernstudio at Volksoper Wien (they were previously in the studio from 2022-2024). Over the season, White performed Die Zauberflöte (Dritte Dame), Jolanthe und der Nussknacker (Martha), La Rondine (Suzy), and Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Frau Reich). They returned to Copenhagen with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra for Dido and Aneas and performed Alcina (Bradamante) and Jeptha (Hamor) on tour with Il Pomo d’Oro. Other highlights include Mahler 2 at the Osterfestspiele Salzburg with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Esa Pekka Salonen, Mahler 3 with the Kansas City Symphony and the Oregon Symphony, as well as a recital in Bergen with pianist Michał Biel. White finished the season with their BBC Proms debut with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, featuring as a soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
Representation
Season Highlights
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Jasmin White sings 'Weiche, Wotan! Weiche!' from Wagner's Das Rheingold
Credit: Queen Elisabeth Competition, BOZAR
Jasmin White sings Arsace's "Ah quel giorno" from Semiramide,
Conducted by Maestro Alejo Perez and Symfonisch Orkest Vlaanderen Credit: Jasmin White
Jasmin White sings Handel's 'Iris Hence Away' from Semele
Conducted by Maestro James Gaffigan with the Norway National Opera Orchestra Credit: Queen Sonja Competition / Jasmin White
News
Press
Queen Sonja Competition 2023
Oslo, NorwayAug 2023... The result was almost a given. For the kind of stage presence, excess and charm that first prize winner Jasmin White brought to the market square in Bjørvika on Saturday evening, one will have to look for a long time. You could see it as soon as they entered the podium - cheerful and full of energy with clothes, hairstyle and jewelry that led the mind in the direction of Aïda . Their voice ... was deep, soft and powerful in their expressive and dramatic performances ... And when the award ceremony was completed with another round of Semele, a slight grimace showed the humor that always seemed to be lurking and caused the audience to burst into laughter. We can hope that the first prize will bring them to Norway before too long.
- Klassisk Musikk
- 01 August 2023
Queen Sonja Competition 2023
Oslo, NorwayAug 2023We have been looking for a winner who has the complete package.’ And no other singer managed that feat with the same commitment as White did. The Oregon-native was fierce and poised in both pieces, their powerful voice cutting clearly into the hall with clarity of sound and diction. They might have been standing in front of an orchestra, but as an audience member, you could feel the scenes they were inhabiting. The other singers in the competition all managed their own immersive moments, but no one quite managed to sustain you in their dramatic world quite like White did.
- OperaWire
- 01 August 2023