JoélleHarvey

Acclaimed by the Financial Times as singing one of the "most delectably mellifluous Susanna to have been heard here for some years”, American soprano Joélle Harvey has built a reputation as one of finest singers of her generation, performing major roles on stages such as the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Royal Opera House, Zurich Opera, Teatro La Fenice and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

The 2025-2026 season is anchored by the operas of Mozart: her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Santa Fe Opera’s new Christopher Luscombe production of The Magic Flute, conducted by Harry Bicket, and a reprisal of Pamina with The Metropolitan Opera. On the concert platform, Joélle performs Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst; Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska (debut); Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Magnificat with Bernard Labadie and the San Francisco Symphony, and Bach Cantatas with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Harvey began the 2024-2025 season with Dame Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque for Haydn’s Creation, and returned to Chicago later in the season for the composer’s Paukenmesse with the Chicago Symphony (Manfred Honeck conducting). She sang Mozart’s Requiem with the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Stéphane Denève, a programme of Poulenc and Ravel in a return to the Milwaukee Symphony, and Mahler’s 2nd Symphony Resurrection for conductor Robin Ticciati’s final season with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. She performed Handel’s Messiah with the Houston Symphony, selections from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Cincinnati Symphony, Bach’s Easter Oratorio & Magnificat with the Cleveland Orchestra and St. John Passion with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Bernard Labadie, and Handel cantatas with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society and Jonathan Cohen. During the summer of 2025, she returned to the role of Anne Trulove in Chas Rader-Shieber’s new production of The Rake’s Progress at Des Moines Opera.

Other recent highlights include performances with The English Concert cond. Harry Bicket, The Cleveland Orchestra cond. Franz Welser- Möst, the LA Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Gustavo Dudamel, Orchestra of St Luke’s cond. Bernard Labadie, Arcangelo cond. Jonathan Cohen and the Deutsches Symphony-Orchester cond. Robin Ticciati. Ms. Harvey has also performed alongside ensembles such as the Cincinnati Symphony, the New York Philharmonic and Philharmonia, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, the New World Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra. On the opera stage Joélle has performed on the greatest stages worldwide, including performing Pamina Die Zauberflote at the Metropolitan Opera and the title role in Handel’s Semele at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

A native of Bolivar, New York, soprano Joélle Harvey received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in vocal performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She began her career training at Glimmerglass Opera (now The Glimmerglass Festival) and the Merola Opera Program.