Jessen, Syrinx
No. 28
Voice type: Soprano
Country: Netherlands
Date of birth: 29 July, 1989
Ms Jessen is a graduate student at the University of Music Würzburg. At the Udo Reinemann International Masterclasses of International Song, she could spend a year studying a large variety of Lied repertoire. Her roles include Belinda and the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Mozart’s Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, the Countess in the Le Nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni as well as Mimi in La bohème and Colombina Busoni’s Arlecchino all for the University of Music Würzburg. For years, she has been collaborating with the Dutch National Touring Opera, and will make her stage debut with them in 2019 with the role of Mrs Anderssen in A Little Night Music by Sondheim. She is also an established, internationally acknowledged flautist, now Solo Flautist of the Mannheim Philharmonic Orchestra.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Die Lorelei (H. Heine)
Smetana: Och, jaky zal!…Ten lásky sen (How can I live!…How strange and
dead is everything here) – Marenka’s Aria from The Bartered Bride
Puccini: Mi chiamano Mimi – Mimi’s Aria from La bohème
Semi-final
Debussy: L’année en vain chasse l’année – Lia’s Aria
from L’enfant prodigue
Puccini: In quelle trine morbide – Manon’s Aria from Manon Lescaut
Final
Wagner: Elsa‘s Dream (Einsam in trüben Tagen) – Elsa’s Aria from
Lohengrin
Verdi: Pace, pace mio Dio! – Leonora’s Aria from La forza del destino
Puccini: Donde lieta usci – Mimi’s Aria from La bohème