Rising young mezzo-soprano Jennifer Feinstein has been likened by the Los Angeles Times to "a young Horne, so rich is her mezzo and so full of spark was she on stage." The Santa Barbara Independent praised her "remarkable, expressive voice reaching through the pain towards transcendence in a setting of Nietzsche's ‘Midnight Song'," and Opera News recently called her Elvira "a comic delight."

In season 2012-13 she debuts with Sarasota Opera as Marchesa del Poggio in Verdi’s Un Giorno di Regno; sings as soloist in John Cage’s “Solo for Voice No. 30” from Songbooks with the American Symphony Orchestra; with the Oratorio Society of New York under Kent Tritle in Paul Moravec’s “Blizzard Voices”; sings Bach’s Magnificat as part of the Sacred Music in a Sacred Place series at Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (NYC); in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in a return to Glacier Symphony Orchestra and Chorale; and as Maddalena in Rigolettowith Lyric Opera of Baltimore. In summer of 2013 she sings as Maddalena in her debut with Opera Theater of Connecticut. Upcoming 2013-14 engagements currently include singing as mezzo soloist with Richmond Symphony in Verdi’s Requiem.

In 2011-12 Jennifer Feinstein made her Carnegie Hall debut and Opera Orchestra of New York debut in Adriana Lecouvreur as Madame Dangeville. Other season engagements included singing as Buttercup in HMS Pinafore with Opera New Jersey; as soloist in a gala concert for “I Sing Beijing” (in China), founded by the Metropolitan Opera’s Hao Jiang Tian; and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky (in Russian) with the Glacier Symphony and Chorale.

Recent season highlights include her Spoleto Festival (USA) debut in The Medium as Mrs. Nolan; her European debuts at the Beethoven Easter Festival as Francisca in Donizetti’s Maria Padilla in Warsaw (recorded for release on the Naxos label), and with Orchestra Sinfonica di Giuseppe Verdi in Milan as Ruth Sherwood in Wonderful Town; appearing in Noel Coward’s Bittersweet at Bard’s SummerScape Music Festival; her return to Chautauqua Opera as a Studio Young Artist to perform the role of Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and to Opera Theatre of St. Louis in her third season as a Gerdine Young Artist to cover Mrs. Segstrom in A Little Night Music, as well as appearing in the ensemble of the world premiere of The Golden Ticket.

She performed at Music Academy of the West in the role of Frederic in Mignon and in William Bolcom’s A Wedding (West Coast premiere) as Nettie Sloan and Aunt Bea; and made her concert debut as the alto soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the Music Academy of the West Orchestra. She appeared with Yale Opera as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Carmen in La Tragédie de Carmen, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, and as the mezzo soloist in the Verdi Requiem.

Receiving both her Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, she was a Young Artist with the Indianapolis Opera for the 2007-2008 season, where she performed Third Lady in The Magic Flute, and covered Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Ms. Feinstein was a Studio Artist with Chautauqua Opera in 2007, where she covered the role of Mercedes in Carmen. She has performed with Opera Theatre of St. Louis as Second Salvation Army Girl in Kurt Weill's Street Scene, as well as covering Rosina in The Barber of Seville and Stephano in Romeo and Juliet. She has performed at Indiana University Opera Theater as Flora in La traviata, Martha in The Secret Garden, Mama McCourt in The Ballad of Baby Doe, Ilona Ritter in She Loves Me, the title role in La Cenerentola, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Katisha in The Mikado, and Dame Doleful in Too Many Sopranos.

Jennifer Feinstein placed third in the 2012 Gerda Lissner Competition and was a national semi-finalist in Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for 2010. She was a finalist in the National Opera Association, Jensen Foundation, Bel Canto Vocal Scholarship, semi-finalist in the Shreveport Opera Singer of the Year competition, and has been awarded Encouragement Awards from the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition, Opera Index, and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Receiving both her Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music and a Master of Music from the Yale University School of Music, she was a Young Artist with the Indianapolis Opera.

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