Janice Hall
Soprano
New England First Place Winner, 1976
National Council Finalist, 1976

Janice Hall is one of the most versatile sopranos singing today. Since her professional debut at the age of 19 as Monica in The Medium with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, her repertoire has grown, from the coloratura fireworks of Bellini and Rossini, to the classical elegance of Mozart and Verdi, and finally to the verismo passion of Puccini and Strauss. After studies at the Boston Conservatory, Miss Hall began her career in the United States, singing with companies such as the Washington Opera (Un Ballo In Maschera, La Sonnambula, and Il Barbiere Di Siviglia), the New York City Opera (Falstaff, La Clemenza Di Tito) the San Diego Opera (Don Giovanni, Carmen, Rigoletto), and the Houston Grand Opera (La Périchole). She appeared as Elvira in I Puritani and as Giulietta in I Capuletti Ed I Montecchi with the Boston Concert Opera, and at the Santa Fe Opera Festival in Barbiere, Don Pasquale, Handel's Ariodante, Cavalli's La Calisto, and La Traviata.

Upcoming engagements include the role of Blanche Dialogues of the Carmelites with Ft Worth Opera, and the title role of Madama Butterfly at the Komische Oper Berlin in a production to be directed by Calixtho Bieito.

Janice Hall made her European debut as Rosina in Il Barbiere Di Siviglia at the Hamburg State Opera, a role she has also sung in Cologne, at the Vienna State Opera, and at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. For several years she was a member of the ensemble of the Cologne Opera, where her repertoire included Lucia, Gilda, Violetta, Adina, Liu, Susanna, Lauretta, Ninetta in Rossini's La Gazza Ladra, and the title role in Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen.

Additional European appearances include Micaela in Carmen with the Zurich Opera; Il Matrimonio Segreto at Teatro La Fenice, Venice; La Boheme at the Komische Oper Berlin, and several productions at the Schwetzingen festival, two of which (Agrippina and La Cambiale Di Matrimonio) were filmed for German television and later released on video. For two seasons she performed at the Salzburg Festival in Austria, appearing in Monteverdi's Il Ritorno D'ulisse in Patria and various concert venues.

Janice Hall's other concert appearances include performances with the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the National Symphony of Washington, DC, Rome's Santa Cecilia Orchestra, and orchestras in Zurich, Brussels, Antwerp, and Paris. Concert repertoire has included Samuel Barber's Knoxville:Summer Of 1915, Honegger's Jeanne D'arc au Bûcher, Mozart's C-Minor Mass, and the Symphonies 4 And 8 Of Mahler.

Janice Hall has also appeared with the Lyric Opera of Chicago Marriage of Figaro, Vancouver Opera La Boheme, and the Flemish Opera, Antwerp John Blow’s Venus and Adonis. She performed as Violetta in the New York City Opera’s Emmy-winning telecast of La Traviata, Live fromLincoln Center, directed by Renata Scotto. Important new roles include Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni , performed at the Festival of Perth, Western Australia, Madama Butterfly, the Governess Turn of the Screw at the Ft Worth Opera, and Salome, performed in Germany in a production directed by Bernd Weikl.

Ms. Hall is managed by Robert Gilder

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