Joélle Harvey

The American soprano Joélle Harvey, a native of Bolivar in New York State, completed her vocal studies at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. She began her professional career in the Glimmerglass Opera’s Young American Artists Program and the San Francisco Merola Opera Program. Following appearances at New York City Opera and the opera houses of Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta, she appeared as Galatea in Handel’s Acis and Galatea at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2011; there she later also performed Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in a production staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Marc Minkowski. In 2014, she debuted at London’s Royal Opera House in Cavalli’s Ormindo and sang Serpetta from Mozart’s La finta giardiniera at the Glyndebourne Festival. She made her debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera as Pamina from Mozart’s The Magic Flute in 2019, and last season she undertook her first guest appearance at Zurich Opera as Aristea in Pergolesi’s L’Olimpiade. One of the main focuses of Joélle Harvey’s artistic work is concert performance. She sings a repertoire ranging from Bach’s Passions and Handel’s oratorios to Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, and Brahms’s German Requiem, as well as the Mahler symphonies, his symphonic cantata Das klagende Lied, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and Britten’s Les Illuminations. She has worked with the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestras, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, as well as with such historically informed ensembles as the Handel & Haydn Society, Tafelmusik, Arcangelo, Pygmalion, Les Violons du Roy, and The English Concert. Joélle Harvey has performed under the direction of such conductors as William Christie, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Jakub Hrůša, Juanjo Mena,
and Franz Welser-Möst.

August 2022