Jennifer Rivera is an American mezzo-soprano who has had an active international performance career in operas and concerts since the early 2000s.
Career
Rivera studied at the Juilliard School and appeared in several productions with the Juilliard Opera Center, including Gluck's Armide (1999) and the title role in Rossini's La Cenerentola (2000), a role that she repeated at Florida Grand Opera in 2009. Rivera performed extensively at New York City Opera early in her career, performing such roles as Hansel Hansel and Gretel (2002), Lazuli in Chabrier's L'étoile (2002), Meg in Mark Adamo's Little Women (2003), Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro (2004), Rosina in The Barber of Seville (2005), Myrrhine in Adamo's Lysistrata (2006), and Nerone in Handel's Agrippina (2007). In 2007, she was also a soloist with the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, in the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, in the summer series.
The same year, 2007, Rivera created the role of Sharon Falconer in the world premiere of Robert Aldridge Elmer Gantry at the Nashville Opera, a role that she repeated at the Montclair State University in 2008. Also in 2008, Rivera performed the role of Sesto in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito under Roberto Abbado with the Teatro Regio di Torino. In 2009 she sang Varèse's Offrandes in concert with the American Symphony Orchestra, and in 2010 she performed the role of Nerone in Handel's Agrippina under René Jacobs at the Berlin Staatsoper and created the role of Veruca Salt in the world premiere of Peter Ash's The Golden Ticket with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. In 2011, Rivera performed the role of Ismene in Traetta's Antigona under René Jacobs at the Berlin Staatsoper, and in 2012, she performed title role in Francesco Provenzale's La Stellidaura vendicante at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival. In 2013 Rivera performed Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel and portrayed the Nanny in Ernst Toch’s Princess and the Pea at the Gotham Chamber Opera. In 2014 she performed the role of S
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