JenniferDavis

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  • Janáček Jenůfa

    English National Opera, London Coliseum
    Mar 2024

    • Davis sings with an extraordinary radiance (hers really is a most beautiful voice) and vivid depth of feeling, so that Jenůfa’s rapture, anguish and eventual strength, moral as well as emotional, all really hit home. Her grief at the death of her baby has a desperate immediacy only achievable through superb artistry. As despair finally yields to love and hope in the closing scenes, the blaze in her tone is simply breathtaking.

    • Young Irish soprano Jennifer Davis in the title role complements a strong, clear voice with impeccable acting skills. Her top notes are secure, her diction exemplary. Her star is rising very fast.

    • It was Jennifer Davis who owned the stage in the title role. Her voice is as powerful as her stage presence … Davis’ responses to Kostelnička Buryja, were frequently heart-melting, as was her prayer to the Virgin Mary.

    • Jennifer Davis stole the show, with a bell-like tone that was truly beautiful and the interaction between the Kostelnička and Jenůfa was astonishingly moving.

    • Jenufa of Jennifer Davis was beautifully nuanced. One really felt for her throughout, and her nobility of purpose was beautifully captured at the end.

    • Jennifer Davis’ bold distinct soprano filled the Coliseum in an utterly credible performance, but the technique was there to file the voice down in delicate pianissimo that was completely audible. Hers is a voice that glows just as much as her portrayal of the character; her Jenůfa is a beacon in a very murky moral ecosystem.

    • Jennifer Davis uses the power behind her beautiful lyric soprano to go the extra mile, as she always does.

  • Wagner Lohengrin

    Deutsche Oper Berlin
    Oct 2023 - Nov 2023

    • David Butt Philip (Lohengrin) and Jennifer Davis (Elsa) have sung their roles in this staging before, and both were in blistering form... Davis’ Elsa is familiar to London audiences, given that she sang the role when David Alden’s staging was new at Covent Garden in 2018, repeating her acclaimed interpretation once again in last year’s revival. Resplendent, ringing high notes allied to a rock solid technique, gave notice that this highly talented, silvery voiced soprano has quickly become one of the leading exponents of the role. In addition she cut a tragic, fragile figure on stage – one couldn’t help but be moved by her plight.

  • Gounod Faust

    Irish National Opera
    Oct 2023

    • He is ably met by Irish soprano Jennifer Davis who beautifully sings in the role of Marguerite, showing her considerable experience.

    • while his love duet with Jennifer Davis’ Marguerite was utterly captivating.

  • Dvorak Armida

    Wexford Festival
    Oct 2022 - Nov 2022

    • Davis masters every aspect: the lyric beauty of Armida’s Rusalka-esque first aria, the dramatic urgency of her fiction to the Crusaders, the sensuousness of the magic-kingdom love music and the sorrowful denouement. The Irish soprano’s trajectory in Wagner and Strauss roles worldwide could move from lyric to dramatic, given the strong backbone of her more urgent singing… But Dvořák and Jennifer Davis are the joint regents of Wexford this year.

    • Just think of the protagonist Jennifer Davies, who possesses the soft lyrical shine but also the temper and resistance – as well as intelligence and awareness – to hold the part without giving up phrasing, looking for and finding colours and accents.

    • From her initial entrance, soprano Jennifer Davis dominated the stage with a confident performance that successfully brought Armida’s feisty, passionate character to life. She possesses a resonant, versatile, and secure voice with a wonderful burnished luminosity, which she used expertly to imbue her lines with emotional strength. The voice is totally secure; one can sit back, relax, and enjoy the voice as it soars upward, singing out above the rising sound of the orchestra, without even a suggestion that it will fray or falter. It is a truly marvelous instrument.

    • The Armida of Wexford debutant Jennifer Davis was much anticipated, ever since her success as Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin at Covent Garden. She did not disappoint, with lustrous tone powerfully projected, and notable stage presence whether disingenuously abasing herself before a crusader commander or derisively repulsing a rival sorcerer.

  • Mozart Così fan tutte

    Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
    Jun 2022 - Jul 2022

  • Wagner Lohengrin

    Royal Opera House Covent Garden
    Apr 2022 - May 2022

    • "Jennifer Davis shines in heavyweight night of Wagner." "Returning to the role of Elsa, she is the star asset, singing with a spine-tingling combination of power and purity, as well as unfailing musicality."

    • Soprano Jennifer Davis returns as Elsa. It is her signature role, and it shows. She has a beautifully rich, alto-like tone, but her voice is agile too, and well serves the many dramatic demands.