University of Colorado Masterclass

American soprano Jennifer Bird enjoys a busy and varied singing career in the United States and Europe, having built a reputation as a charismatic, intelligent and versatile performer of more than 50 roles in opera, operetta and musical theater, as well as much of the standard oratorio and concert literature.

As the recipient of a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, Bird studied in Germany in the Opernklasse of the Hamburg Musikhochschule where she joined the vocal studio of renowned soprano Judith Beckmann. Soon thereafter she began singing at the Landestheater Coburg and then at the Bremer Theater where she became a pillar of the soloist ensemble, singing major roles in the lyric and lyric-coloratura soprano repertory and, in Coburg, twice earning the Audience Favorite Prize. Engagements followed at the Vienna Volksoper, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater Bonn, Theater Chemnitz, Theater Lu?beck, Theater Wu?rzburg and Theater Hagen, among others. Bird has sung roles spanning from soubrette to dramatic coloratura, especially in the operas of Mozart (Despina, Pamina, Sandrina, Konstanze), Donizetti (Norina, Adina, Lucia) and Verdi (Gilda and Violetta). Other favorites have included the title role in Berg’s Lulu, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Marguerite in Faust, Musetta in La Bohème, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress and Nedda in I Pagliacci.