UWF Department of Music presents soprano Jane Dutton as part of Music Hall Artist Series
On Monday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m., the University of West Florida Department of Music will present soprano Jane Dutton as part of the Music Hall Artist Series. The event will be held in the Music Hall at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Building 82, at the UWF Pensacola Campus.
On Monday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m., the University of West Florida Department of Music will present soprano Jane Dutton as part of the Music Hall Artist Series. The event will be held in the Music Hall at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Building 82, at the UWF Pensacola Campus.
The program will include “Wesendonck Lieder,” by Richard Wagner and “Blue Mountain Ballads,” by Paul Bowles as well as works by Beethoven and Ravel. Davis Hart will accompany on the piano.
Jane Dutton is associate professor of voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. An Indiana native, she has sung in many of the top opera houses in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, English National Opera in London, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and New York City Opera—first as a mezzo-soprano and now as a dramatic soprano.
Dutton made her European opera debut at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre Del Liceu and was reengaged by the theater for 10 seasons. She has sung several seasons at London’s English National Opera, most recently appearing as Kundry in “Parsifal.” That appearance marked the start of her career as a Wagnerian soprano, and she has since sung many of the major Wagnerian roles in the United States, Germany and Hong Kong.
In the United States, Dutton has sung Jordan Baker in John Harbison’s “The Great Gatsby” and Stephano in “Roméo et Juliette,” as well as numerous other roles for the Metropolitan Opera. In addition to her appearances in major U.S. opera houses, she has sung with more than 25 U.S. regional opera houses in more than 30 different major roles.
Dutton’s orchestral work highlights include appearances with the New York Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, RTE National Symphony in Ireland, Prague Radio Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Houston Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony and the Korean Broadcast Symphony at the United Nations General Assembly. She has recorded under the Chandos and Albany Records labels.
She has been awarded prizes in many competitions, including Placido Domingo’s Operalia. She earned a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music from Indiana University, where she studied with famed Wagnerian Margaret Harshaw. Dutton received an Artist Diploma from Yale University.
Ticket prices are $16 for adults, $12 for seniors and military, $10 for UWF faculty and staff and non-UWF students, and $5 for high school students. UWF students are free with a Nautilus Card. For more information or to reserve tickets, please contact the CFPA Box Office at (850) 857-6285.
