35. Honoring Ourselves: Mind, Body, Soul, Music with Jenna Siladie

<p>Soprano Jenna Siladie has earned warm acclaim, praised by the New York Times for her "endearing sweet voice", and hailed by the European press as having a “both warm and shimmering tone".</p> <h4>​The 2019/20 season has heralded in a string of successes, including the&nbsp;role debut as Marguerite in Faust, as well as Arianna in the Handel opera Giustino:&nbsp;"The soprano Jenna Siladie, who in the role of Arianna shows vocally, why she is&nbsp;the star of the young ensemble."</h4> <h4>​In &nbsp;2018 Jenna joined&nbsp;the prestigious ensemble&nbsp;at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria, singing the lead heroine of Élisabeth in Verdi’s Don &nbsp;Carlos. Der Standard noted, “the most harmonious performance of the production goes to Jenna Siladie whose beautiful Élisabeth combines&nbsp;elegance, fullness, and vocal warmth and&nbsp;luminosity.”</h4> <p>In the autumn of 2017, she made&nbsp;her Germany debut as a guest at Oper Wuppertal, singing Gutrune&nbsp;in Götterdämmerung, being praised for singing &nbsp;“with passion and sweet soprano sound which is seldom heard” (Die &nbsp;Deutsche Bühne). She saw the addition of two new roles in the spring of 2017 as Adina in L'elisir d'amore with St. Petersburg Opera Company and then Lauretta in Opera Company of Middlebury's production of Il trittico.</p> <p>Ms. Siladie's additional operatic credits include Micaela in Carmen, Iolanta in Iolanta (Tchaikovsky), Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. She made her NYC debut with Gotham Chamber Opera in 2014, performing the respective leading roles of Popelka and Armande in a double bill production of Bohuslav Martinů's operas Veselohra na mostě and Alexandre Bis. Other NYC highlights include the leading role of Léontine in the U.S premiere of the Chevalier de Saint-Georges' 1780 opera L'amant anonyme (March 2016).</p> <p>A &nbsp;frequent concert and recital soloist, Ms. Siladie made her Carnegie Hall debut in June 2017 as soloist in John Rutter's Mass of the Children and has been a favorite guest with Carolina Philharmonic. Furt