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date = "2017-10-09T19:03:00-04:00"
discipline = "Mezzo-soprano"
lastmod = "2017-10-09T19:03:00-04:00"
primary_image = "https://res.cloudinary.com/schmopera/image/upload/v1546110467/media/2018/12/JaneHenschelBarbaraEichinger.jpg"
primary_image_credit = "Barbara Eichinger"
publishDate = "2017-10-09T19:03:00-04:00"
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slug = "jane-henschel"
title = "Jane Henschel"

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Jane Henschel was born in Wisconsin, studied at the University of Southern California and subsequently moved to Germany. 

In concert, she has appeared with the Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Orchestre de Radio France under Seiji Ozawa, James Conlon, Lorin Maazel, Sir Simon Rattle, Marek Janowski, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Andrew Davis and Michael Schønwandt. Her recordings include Krasa Verlobung im Traum with Lothar Zagrosek (Decca), Baba the Turk in Stravinsky *The Rake's Progress* with Ozawa (Philips Classics), Albeniz Merlin with Placido Domingo (Grammy Award, 2001) and Henry Clifford (both for Decca), Britten *The Turn of the Screw* with Daniel Harding (EMI/Virgin - Gramophone Award 2003) and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Rattle (EMI).

In opera, Jane Henschel has sung Baba the Turk at the Glyndebourne, Saito Kinen and Salzburg Festivals; Brangäne (Wagner *Tristan und Isolde*) for Los Angeles Opera and the Opéra national de Paris; Klytemnestra (Strauss *Elektra*) for San Francisco Opera, the Principessa (Puccini *Suor Angelica*) with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Chailly, Poulenc *Les Dialogues des Carmélites* in Amsterdam; Kostelnicka (Janáček *Jenufa*) under Ozawa in Japan, Auntie (Britten *Peter Grimes*) with Rattle, and the Kabanicha (Janáček *Katya Kabanova*) for the Salzburg Festival.  

For The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden she has sung Fricka (Wagner *Die Walküre*) and Waltraute (Wagner *Götterdämmerung*) under Bernard Haitink, Ulrica (Verdi *Un ballo in maschera*) under Gatti, Klytemnestra under Christian Thielemann and Sir Mark Elder, Mrs Grose (Britten *The Turn of the Screw*) under Colin Davis and Harding, and Erda in the new *Ring Cycle* under Antonio Pappano; at Teatro alla Scala, Milan she has sung Herodias (Strauss *Salome*) under Myung-whun Chung, Cassandre (Berlioz *Les Troyens*) under Colin Davis, and Waltraute under Riccardo Muti. Her roles at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich include Herodias, Klytemnestra, Ulrica, Mistress Quickly (Verdi *Falstaff*) and Ortrud (Wagner *Lohengrin*); at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin Klytemnestra, Herodias and Ortrud; at the Wiener Staatsoper, Klytemnestra, Mistress Quickly and Fricka; and Mistress Quickly for Los Angeles Opera under Kent Nagano. It is the Amme (Strauss *Die Frau ohne Schatten*) which has become her signature role, one which she has sung in Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles, Munich, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

Recent engagements include her return to the Wiener Staatsoper for *Salome* and *Katya Kabanova*, the Dresdner Semperoper for *Salome*, the Staatstheater Stuttgart for *Eugene Onegin* and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra for Salome.  This season’s highlights include Auntie (Britten *Peter Grimes*) at the Oper Frankfurt and Herodias in concert at the Staatsoper Hannover with Donald Runnicles.