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Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Catalina Cuervo & Jennifer Johnson Cano Lead Cincinnati Symphony’s 2024-25 Season

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The Cincinnati Symphony has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances on offer. Larisa Martínez and Peter Dugan join Joshua Bell for an evening of Mendelssohn, Bernstein, Puccini, and more. Performance Date: Oct. 6, 2024 Marin Alsop conducts the May Festival Chorus in a Shostakovich and Bernstein program. Performance Dates: Nov. 16 & 17, 2024 {…}

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Jennifer Johnson Cano Set for Two New York City Concerts This March

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(Photo by Matthu Placek) Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano is set for two major performances in New York City on March 8 and 28, 2024. First up is the March 8 performance with the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society. The showcase will feature songs by Ravel and Rorem as well as works by Bach, Janácek, and Haydn. Cano is joined by flutist {…}

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Mané Galoyan & Jennifer Johnson Cano Lead Seattle Symphony’s Mahler Concert

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(Credit: Matthu Placek) The Seattle Symphony is set to present Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. The orchestra and chorus will be conducted by Osmo Vänskä and will feature soloists Armenian soprano Mané Galoyan and American mezzo-Soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano. In a statement, the Seattle Symphony said, “Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony encompasses eternal questions of life and death and the ultimate power of love {…}

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Joélle Harvey, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Nikolay Borchev Headline Chamber Music Society’s ‘The Magic of Schubert’ Festival

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(Credit: Arielle Doneson) The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has announced its Winter Festival entitled “The Magic of Schubert.” For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. First up will be a concert entitled “Into Eternity” featuring baritone Nikolay Borchev. He will be joined by the Orion String Quartet and pianist Wu Han. {…}

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Jennifer Johnson Cano to Headline ‘Music of Kevin Puts’ Concert with Met Orchestra

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(Photo Credit: Grant Legan) Jennifer Johnson Cano will join forces with musicians from the Met Orchestra for “Music of Kevin Puts” on Nov. 21, 2022 as part of Music Mondays in New York City. The showcase, which will take place at the Advent Lutheran Church on Broadway, will feature selections from Puts’ new opera “The Hours,” his “Credo,” “Seven Seascapes,” {…}

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Jennifer Johnson Cano Gets European Representation

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(Credit: Grant Legan) Jennifer Johnson Cano has joined Keynote Artist Management for European representation. The mezzo took to social media to announce the news and said, “Feeling like a lucky lady today! I’m so excited to join the keynote artist management family for European representation. Together, with Kirsh Baum associates, I am surrounded by the most enthusiastic and supportive team! {…}

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Leah Crocetto, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Limmie Pulliam, and Aleksey Bogdanov to Open San Diego Symphony Season

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The San Diego Symphony has announced its 2022-23 Masterworks Classical Season, which will be book-ended with vocal performances of works by Verdi and Antonio Estévez. Opening the season is a San Diego Symphony premiere presentation of Verdi’s “Requiem” featuring soloists soprano Leah Crocetto, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, tenor Limmie Pulliam, and baritone Aleksey Bogdanov, all of whom are making their {…}

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Q & A: Powerful Mezzo-Soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano On Facing Challenging Roles in ‘Sketches from Frankenstein,’ ‘A Song By Mahler,’ & ‘The Hours’

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Jennifer Johnson Cano has garnered critical acclaim for committed performances of both new and standard repertoire. For her performance as Offred in Poul Ruders’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” she was lauded as “towering…restless, powerful, profound, she is as formidable as this astonishingly demanding role deserves.” With more than 100 performances on the stage at The Metropolitan Opera, her most recent roles {…}