JENNIFER LANE (mezzo-soprano) enjoys a career that spans opera production/direction as well as performing leading roles in major productions with leading companies. She recently created the role of Charmian London in Libby Larsen's Everyman Jack, an opera about the author and adventurer Jack London. Throughout Spain during 2007-08, she has been performing the dual roles of Messaggiera/Speranza in Monteverdi’s Orfeo with Capella Ministrers, based in Valencia, Spain. Ms. Lane's Opera credits include l'Opéra de Monte Carlo, Aix-en-Provence, Les Arts Florissants, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, and The Metropolitan Opera, among many others. She has over forty recordings, many of which have won Gramophone and other awards, as has her film for BRAVO Television of Purcell's Dido & Æneas with the Mark Morris Dance Group and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. As a music faculty member at Stanford University, she produced and directed Dido & Æneas, Five One-Act Operas, and Mozart's The Magic Flute, as well as created an early music ensemble that performed Shadwell & Dryden's The Tempest and excerpts from Orfeo. Recent productions include Semele and Acis & Galatea at the Blackfriars Theatre in Staunton, VA. She is currently associate professor at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Ms. Lane lives in New York City and in Texas.

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