A 2012 Richard Tucker Career Grant and Opera Index Winner and 2011 Sara Tucker Study Grant Recipient, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano joined The Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera in 2008 and made her Met debut in 2009-2010. As First Prize winner of the 2009 Young Concert Artist International Auditions, she was awarded the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and Princeton University Prizes and has given stunning recital debuts at Merkin Hall and the Kennedy Center, and in Boston, Philadelphia, Houston and Chicago.
In addition to her continued relationship with The Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Cano has appeared with such esteemed orchestras as the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. She toured with Musicians from Marlboro singing Respighi’s Il Tramonto and Cuckson’s Der gayst funem shture, recorded live and released by the Marlboro Recording Society. A live recording of Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” with tenor Paul Groves was released by Orchestra of St. Luke’s in September 2012 as well as a series of DVD’s devoted to Robert LePage’s Ring cycle for The Metropolitan Opera. Following performances at The Metropolitan Opera this season as Mercedes, Emilia, Wellgunde and Waltraute, Ms. Cano looks forward to debuts as Meg Page in Falstaff and Bersi in Andrea Chenier at The Met during the 2013-2014 season. She makes her Weill Recital Hall debut at Carnegie Hall and Philaelphia Chamber Music Society recital debut in October of 2013. Other operatic debuts include Marguerite in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust in collaboration with the Tucson Symphony and Tucson Desert Song Festival in February 2014 and The Sharp Eared Fox in Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen with the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Moest in May. She bows as Diana in Cincinnati Opera’s La Calisto in July. An exciting debut with the Boston Lyric Opera is slated for April of 2015.
