Jamie Van Eyck

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Composer	Opera	Role
Adamo	Little Women	Meg
Barber	Vanessa	Erika
Bellini	I Capuletti e I Montecchi	Romeo
Berlioz	Beatrice et Benedict	Beatrice
	Le Damnation de Faust	Marguerite
Bernstein	Trouble in Tahiti	Dinah
	Candide	Old Lady
Bizet	Carmen	Carmen
Britten	The Turn of the Screw	Miss Jessel
	A Midsummer Night’s Dream	Hermia, Hyppolita
	The Rape of Lucretia	Lucretia
	Albert Herring	Nancy
Carter	What Next?	Mama
Cavalli	La Calisto	Diana
Donizetti	Lucia di Lammermoor	Alisa
	Maria Stuarda	Elisabetta
Gluck	Orfeo ed Euridice	Orfeo
Golijov	Ainadamar	Granada Girl
Gounod	Romeo et Juliette	Stefano
	Faust	Siebel
Handel	Alcina	Ruggiero
	Ariodante	Ariodante
	Giulio Cesare	Sesto, Cornelia
Heggie	Dead Man Walking	Sister Helen
Humperdink	Hansel und Gretel	Hansel
Mascagni	Cavalleria Rusticana	Lola
Massenet	Cendrillon	Cendrillon
	Werther	Charlotte
Menotti	The Consul	Secretary
Meyerbeer	Les Huguenots	Urbain
Monteverdi	Il Ritorno d’Ulisse	Melanto
	L’Incoronazione di Poppea	Poppea, Ottavia
Mozart	Cosi fan Tutte	Dorabella
	The Magic Flute	Second Lady
	Don Giovanni	Zerlina, Donna Elvira
	Idomeneo	Idamante
	Le Nozze di Figaro	Cherubino
	La Finta Giardiniera	Arminda
	La Clemenza di Tito	Sesto, Annio
Offenbach	Orpheus in the Underworld	Venus
	La Perichole	Perichole
	Les Contes d’Hoffmann	Nicklausse
Puccini	Madama Butterfly	Suzuki
	La Rondine	Suzy
	Gianni Schicchi	La Ciesca
Purcell	Dido and Aeneas	Dido, Sorceress
Rameau	Platee	Junon
Rossini	Il Barbiere di Siviglia	Rosina
	La Cenerentola	Angelina, Tisbe
	L’Italiana in Algeri	Isabella
Strauss	Ariadne auf Naxos	Komponist, Dryade
	Der Rosenkavalier	Octavian
Tchaikovsky	Eugene Onegin	Olga
Verdi	La Traviata	Flora
	Luisa Miller	Laura
	Falstaff	Meg Page
Wagner	Die Walkure	Rossweisse
	Das Rheingold	Wellgunde
	Gotterdammerung	Wellgunde

Composer	Work
Bach	St. Matthew Passion
	B Minor Mass
	Christmas Oratorio
Beethoven	Symphony No. 9
	Mass in C
Berlioz	Les Nuits d’Ete
Bernstein	Mass
Copland	In the Beginning
Crumb	American Songbook V
Handel	Messiah
Haydn	Harmoniemesse
Mahler	Songs of a Wayfarer
	Symphony No. 2
	Das Lied von der Erde
	Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Mendelsshon	Elijah
Mozart	Mass in C Minor
Schoenberg	Pierrot Lunaire
Schubert	Mass in G Major

With polished, elegant vocalism, and committed dramatic portrayals on stage, American mezzo-soprano Jamie Van Eyck appeals to audiences and critics alike as a compelling young artist in opera and concert. Up next, Jamie returns to Madison Opera as Jade Boucher in Dead Man Walking.

Recent engagements include Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro with Arizona Opera, the Bar Harbor Music Festival, and the Princeton Festival; a return to the Bard SummerScape Festival for concerts of French songs and arias, including Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis; recitals with the Ojai Music Festival in California; and a return to Madison Opera as Olga in Eugene Onegin; and La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi with the Princeton Festival. In concert, Ms. Van Eyck sang Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with the Phoenix Symphony and Lexington Philharmonic, Mahler’s Second Symphony with the American Symphony Orchestra, as well as recitals in repeat engagements for the Dallas Museum of Art and the Wolf Trap Foundation Discovery Series, and her debut with the Five Boroughs Music Festival in the Manhattan, Bronx, and Staten Island premieres of the Five Borough Songbook.

Other engagements have included her Boston Lyric Opera debut as The Drummer in The Emperor of Atlantis and as Daughter in the premiere performances of After-Image; a return to Utah Opera as Meg in Little Women; Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro for Opera Theater of Saint Louis; Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw with Madison Opera; Queen Alkmene in Die Liebe der Danae at Bard SummerScape; as well as Dido and The Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas with The Mark Morris Dance Group on tour throughout the US and in Moscow. During her consecutive residencies at Wolf Trap Opera, she sang Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Dryade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Melanto in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, and several recitals with Steven Blier. With the Santa Fe Opera, Ms. Van Eyck covered the role of Junon in Plateé and performed scenes as Sister Helen in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking.

Ms. Van Eyck is also well known for her vast concert work with some of the country’s most famous orchestras. Recent appearances include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the American Symphony Orchestra; The Old Lady in Candide with The National Symphony Orchestra; staged performances of Bernstein’s Mass with the Utah Symphony; Messiah with The Colorado Symphony and The Lexington Philharmonic; Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with The Madison Symphony Orchestra; Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Été with City Music-Cleveland, Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with the New England Contemporary Ensemble, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and Das Lied von der Erde in Boston with The Harvard-Radcliffe Symphony. She was a soloist in This Way to Broadway with Marvin Hamlisch and the National Symphony Orchestra, and she has been featured in multiple Pops concerts with conductor Keith Lockhart. She also performed Jerome Kern’s Music in the Air with the Encores! series at New York City Center.

Ms. Van Eyck sang two world premiere performances at Carnegie Hall, which include Ned Rorem’s Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Kate Soper’s Helen Enfettered, a piece written for specifically for her. At the Tanglewood Music Center’s Festival of Contemporary Music, she performed the role of Mama in the North American staged premiere of Elliott Carter’s opera, What Next?, under the baton of James Levine. She has also performed and premiered works by George Crumb and James Primosch with Orchestra 2001 of Philadelphia, with whom she is a frequent guest artist.

2011 saw the release of her second recording with Bridge Records of New York titled, Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 15. The disc has been widely praised as “consistently wonderful” and “not to be missed” by Classics Today, as well as The Classical Review who deems the performance rich with “immense technical skill and musical panache.”