Canadian soprano
Jacqueline Woodley
has been praised
for her fearless versatility,
changing
styles fluidly from
early music to contemporary,
THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | 2019-2020
from opera
to art song. She
created the role of
Milice-Bride in the
première of Ana Sokolovic’s
opera Svaba
Wedding with Queen of Puddings Music Theatre,
and she was also chosen for the San Francisco
and Philadelphia premieres of this remarkable
work. Most recently, she was hailed for her searing
performance as Natalia in the world premiere of Oksana
G for Tapestry New Opera and earlier appeared
in the premiere of that company’s production
of M’Dea Undone, which won a Dora award.
Most recently, she has performed works of Bach,
Handel and Mendelssohn for concerts with The
Florida Orchestra, Regina Symphony, Edmonton
Symphony and the Ottawa Choral Society. She will
soon be heard in the Canadian premiere of Flight by
Jonathan Dove at Pacific Opera Victoria and as
Euridice in Charpentier’s Orphée aux enfers with
Clavecins en Concert.
Her recent seasons have included Papagena (Die
Zauberflöte), Cherubino (Marriage of Figaro) and
The Forest Bird (Siegfried) for the Canadian Opera
Company, Messiah with the Grand Philharmonic
Choir and Symphony Nova Scotia, Mozart’s Exsultate,
Jubilate with the Edmonton Symphony,
and Apollo e Dafne and Dido and Aeneas for Toronto
Masque Theatre.
She holds a master’s in opera from McGill University.
Rebecca Jo Loeb
debuted with Los
Angeles Opera
and Beth Morrison
Projects as Lumee in
the world premiere of
Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer
p r i z e - w i n n i n g
opera, PRISM, last
season. In 2019/20,
she repeats the
work at the Theatro
Municipal de São
Paulo and at the
Kennedy Center. She also joins The Cleveland
Orchestra for the Gymnasiast/ein Groom in Lulu,
returns to New York Festival of Song, sings
Weill’s Firebird of Florence in Boston and at
Tanglewood with Emmanuel Music, and joins
Theater Oldenburg for Sciarrino’s Vanitas, and The
Florida Orchestra for Bach’s Saint John Passion.
Loeb recently returned to the Deutsche
Oper Berlin for Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire,
having spent five seasons as an ensemble
member there and at Staatsoper Hamburg
singing leading roles in Le nozze di Figaro, Il
barbiere di Sviglia, Faust, Hänsel und Gretel, Die
Fledermaus, and The Cunning Little Vixen. She
sang Bellante in Handel’s Almira in Hamburg
and Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alte Musik.
Other engagements include joining the
Metropolitan Opera (La traviata); Oper Köln (The
Cunning Little Vixen); Dutch National Opera and
Teatro Municipal de Santiago (Lulu); Theater
Freiburg (Love Life); Festival d`Aix-en-Provence
(Written on Skin); and Dallas Opera (Boris Godunov).
Her concert performances include Handel’s Messiah
and previous performances of Bach’s Saint John
Passion for the Hamburg Ballet, Mendelssohn’s
Midsummer Night’s Dream with the New York
City Ballet, and Bach’s Saint Mark Passion with
the Carl-Philipp-Emmanuel-Bach-Chor. She has
performed various other works of Kurt Weill at the
Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau and with James Conlon
conducting at the Ravinia Festival.
JACQUELINE WOODLEY
Soprano
REBECCA JO LOEB
Mezzo-Soprano
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