Jouvanca Jean-Baptiste

Haitian-American international soprano Jouvanca Jean-Baptiste has been hailed for her "impressive singing” and “big, Verdian lyric dramatic sound”. She is fast emerging as a true talent in the opera world, a lush soprano well-suited to the roles of Puccini, Verdi, Strauss, Mozart, and the operas of the verismo genre. For the 2017 season, she will make her role debut as the Prima Donna/Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos with Lowell House Opera. During the summer of 2016, she covered the role of Bess and performed as Serena in Porgy and Bess with New York Harlem Productions tour of the opera in Germany at the Semperoper Dresden, the Hamburgische Staatsoper, and Alte Oper Frankfurt. She has also been heard in concert performing the orchestral work Beyond the Silence of Sorrow, by acclaimed Puerto R