JoélleHarvey

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About Joélle

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.

Harvey begins the 2024-2025 season with an appearance performing Haydn's The Creation with Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque. Season debuts include a concert of Ravel and Boulanger with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, her house debut at the Opéra Royal de Versailles playing the title role of Galatea in Handel's Acis and Galatea, and Anna Truelove in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at Des Moines Metro Opera. On the concert platform, Harvey will perform Handel’s Messiah with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Houston Symphony Orchestra. She returns to the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin to perform Mahler's Symphony No. 2, St Louis Symphony Orchestra for a concert of Mozart and will perform a programme of Handel with the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston. She will perform Bach's St John's Passion with Orchestra of St Luke's and a concert of Haydn with Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Harvey's recent highlights include a number of appearances with a host of internationally acclaimed organisations. Including 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.

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Nicholas Moloney

Nicholas Moloney

Senior Artist Manager

Representation

European and Asian Management with Askonas Holt
General Management with Fletcher Artist Management

Selected Repertoire

Beethoven

Fidelio (Marzelline)

Britten

Albert Herring (Emmie)   •   A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tytania)   •   The Turn of the Screw (Flora)

Copland

The Tender Land (Laurie)

Donizetti

Don Pasquale (Norina)   •   L’elisir d’amore (Adina)

Gilbert & Sullivan

H.M.S. Pinafore (Josephine)   •   The Mikado (Yum-Yum)   •   The Pirates of Penzance (Mabel)

Glass

Orphée (La Princesse)

Gluck

Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice)

Handel

Acis and Galatea (Galatea)   •   Alcina (Morgana)   •   Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra)   •   Saul (Michal)   •   Semele (Semele)   •   Tolomeo (Seleuce)   •   

Humperdinck

Hänsel und Gretel (Gretel)

J. Strauss

Die Fledermaus (Adele)

Massenet

Werther (Sophie)

Monteverdi

L’incoronazione di Poppea (Poppea)

Mozart

Così fan tutte (Despina)   •   Don Giovanni (Zerlina)   •   Idomeneo (Ilia)   •   Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna)   •   Die Zauberflöte (Pamina)

Offenbach

Orpheus in the Underworld (Eurydice)

Poulenc

Dialogues des Carmélites (Constance)

Purcell

Dido and Aeneas (Belinda)

R. Strauss

Arabella (Zdenka)   •   Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie)

Ravel

L’enfant et les sortilèges (Le feu)

Verdi

Un ballo in maschera (Oscar)   •   Falstaff (Nannetta)

Weber

Der Freischütz (Ännchen)

News

Press

  • Prom 50: Handel's Samson

    Royal Albert Hall, London
    Aug 2023
    • Much of Samson is Handel at his best – not least the showstopping finale Let the Bright Seraphim, sung here with diamond brilliance by Joélle Harvey

  • Semele | Semele

    Glyndebourne Opera Festival
    Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
    • American soprano Joélle Harvey in the title role is a bright, vivacious star,

    • Joelle Harvey an outstanding Semele … Harvey’s singing ranged with equal ease from her sensuous love music to some dazzling coloratura.

  • Pamina | Die Zauberflöte

    Metropolitan Opera
    Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
    • In the role of Princess Pamina, soprano Joélle Harvey had an excellent outing. Her voice is a sparkling coloratura, and she used a full range of dynamics and shading, providing a nuanced performance with personality. Her “Ach, ich fühl’s” was dreamy as she floated the high notes pianissimo, including high Bs. Harvey was playful, joyous, torn, in love, devastated… name the emotion, and Harvey nailed it, making her stage presence captivating and engaging.

    • soprano Joélle Harvey made the most of her one magnificent aria, turning it into an alluringly phrased tragedy, her high notes soft, delicate and spinning.

  • Aristea | L’Olimpiade

    Opernhaus Zürich
    Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
    • Aristea, the contended princess, was Joélle Harvey, who convinced with her silvery soprano,

  • Susanna | Le nozze di Figaro

    The Royal Opera House
    Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
    • Harvey’s voice is a ravishing instrument that never ceases to impress

    • His Susanna, Joëlle Harvey, was superb throughout, though, here making her Royal Opera main stage debut.

    • Harvey was a poised and stylish Susanna, delightfully light voiced and very characterful.

    • The American soprano Joėlle Harvey was, if anything, even better as Susanna, singing Mozart's glorious melodies with great sensitivity. I doubt that I have ever heard this role so sympathetically played.