Jennifer O´Loughlin

Acclaimed Adina at the Gärtnerplatztheater

The new production of L’elisir d’amore at the Gärtnerplatztheater (stage director: Dirk Schmedings, conductor: Michael Balke) has thrilled audiences, with Jennifer O’Loughlin in the role of Adina, once again shining.

Here are some press excerpts:

„Jennifer O’Loughlin's soprano voice is round and agile, filling the air with effortless coloratura. She only needs to touch the high notes to send them flying through the room like arrows.“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 25 May 2025)

„Jennifer O'Loughlin once again shone with her polished soprano tones. There is surely no role that this wonderful voice cannot bring to the stage perfectly in terms of technique and performance.’ (Mittelloge.de, 23 May 2025)

„The evening is spectacular thanks to the soloists, who risk belcanto passion and do not hold back vocally at any point, above all Jennifer O'Loughlin as Adina and Matteo Ivan Rašić as Nemorino. It is rare to experience L'elisir d'amore in such a rousing, playful manner, with such infectious good humour.“ (BR-Klassik, 24 May 2025)

„Jennifer O'Loughlin demonstrates that she is not only defending her reputation as the bel canto queen of the house, but is also capable of performing comedy.“ (Klassikinfo.de, 24 May 2025)

„Jennifer O'Loughlin is now also singing with increasing intensity and impresses with her brilliant high notes.“ (Oper!, 29 May 2025)

„Jennifer O'Loughlin gets to play the big soap opera diva here, building on her acclaimed Donizetti queens vocally. But you can tell she's also got a knack for comedy, especially at the botched engagement party, where she hits top form in a duet with Dulcamara.“ (Münchner Merkur, 26 May 2025)

„Jennifer O'Loughlin, the „queen of all sad bel canto rulers“, is allowed to be completely different this time: at the beginning, she can lounge seductively in a swimsuit under the lemon sun; in a fiery red, breathtakingly low-cut trouser suit (costumes by Frank Lichtenberg), she makes her desirable unattainability clear to Nemorino – and almost all men; in a white wedding dress, her jealousy of the rich heir and now universally desired Nemorino becomes apparent – and then a vocal-musical-dramatic interplay between feigned new contempt, suddenly awakened affection, and refusal to give in to mutually heightened longing in changing tones... externally, everything becomes so „unbearable“ in their increasingly close proximity that when the long-awaited passionate kiss finally happens, a quiet sigh of relief can be heard from the audience – when does some thing like that happen in the theatre these days?!’ (nmz, 25 May 2025)

„Jennifer O'Loughlin and Ivan Rašić made a captivating stage couple. Their coloratura performances received equally thunderous applause." (Bayerische Staatszeitung, May 30, 2025)

„Blessed 80s! Back then, there were still spectacular Tina Turner manes like that of village dream girl Adina - soprano Jennifer O'Loughlin can shake them in this role to accompany her equally spectacular coloraturas.“ (Abendzeitung, 26.05.2025)

12.06.25

Alcina at the Gärtnerplatztheater: what the press is saying

Jennifer O'Loughlin is Alcina at the Gärtnerplatztheater and not only the audience is thrilled! Here are the first press excerpts :

„Jennifer O'Loughlin masters all of Alcina's arias effortlessly.“ Abendzeitung, Robert Braunmüller, 01.02.25

„Jennifer O'Loughlin in the title role was absolutely convincing, both vocally and as an actor.“ BR-Klassik, Peter Jungblut, 01.02.25

„Jennifer O'Loughlin in the title role and Sophie Rennert as Ruggiero are two excellent stylists who dare to express themselves both physically and vocally. Their great arias, whether charged with love, pain, despair or revenge, also become islands of enchantment for the audience.“ Münchner Merkur, 03.02.25

„What a glittering baroque festival at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz: only seven outstanding singers appear in George Frideric Handel's ‘Alcina’, almost all of them from the ensemble. First and foremost Jennifer O'Loughlin in the title role of the enchantress Alcina. What wonderful (pastel) colours she elicited from her lyric coloratura soprano, how enchanted her voice sounded in every phrase, how often she was able to sing beguilingly softly!“ Süddeutsche Zeitung, Klaus Kalchschmid, 02.02.25

„The magnificent Jennifer O'Loughlin as a furious interpreter of the title role“. Donaukurier, Sabine Busch-Frank, 03.02.25

4 more performances on April 9, 13, 17 and 19, 2025

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26.02.25

Alcina at the Gärtnerplatztheater

Following her triumphant success in the title role of La Sonnambula at the end of last season, Jennifer O'Loughlin returns to the Gärtnerplatztheater to celebrate her debut in the title role of Alcina!

Opening night on January 31st, 2025.

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15.01.25

„Queen of belcanto“

Every time she appears on stage, Jennifer O'Loughlin triggers stormy reactions of enthusiasm in the audience and rave reviews. Here's another review, about her Sonnambula at the close of last season:

„The role of Sonnambula is a quintessential role for every lyric coloratura soprano, and Jennifer O‘Loughlin has embodied the role like few other sopranos. She shines with breathtaking coloratura and dramatic top notes that are clean and clear even at a glass-breaking height, only to plunge back into an enchanting piano. Her great prayer and the aria "Ah! se una volta solo… Gran Dio… Non credea mirarti", in which she forgives Elvino while sleep walking in the second act, can hardly be surpassed in terms of beauty and emotional depth. The sleepwalker‘s acting performance is also stupendous. Superlatives and comparisons with the great singers in the field don’t really serve a purpose. But after this performance, it simply has to be said. The great Edita Gruberova has been described as the „high priestess of belcanto“, and O‘Loughlin is the „queen of belcanto“ on this evening, to be mentioned in the same breath as Gruberova. The audience not only cheered after her arias, but also figuratively jumped up from their seats to lay at her feet for her first solo curtain call - something that is rarely seen today. A triumphant success for the likable American, who has been able to call herself a Bavarian Kammersängerin since 2021“ (Andreas H. Hölscher, O-Ton, 03.07.24)

This season Jennifer O’Loughlin will be performing Alcina (title role), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Adina (L’elisir d’amore) at the Gärtnerplatztheater.

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05.09.24

La Sonnambula at the Gärtnerplatztheater

After performing at the Gärtnerplatztheater (Munich) in recent weeks Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Leila (Les pêcheurs de perles) and Frau Fluth (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Jennifer O'Loughlin will soon be appearing in the title role in the revival of La sonnambula at her home theatre.

Below are some press extracts about Jennifer's performance in the new production of Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Frau Fluth) at the Gärtnerplatztheater:

“Jennifer O'Loughlin is a delight as Frau Fluth, impressing with masterfully executed coloratura and a pure, simply beautiful belcanto timbre in all tonal and emotional registers.” (Das Opernmagazin, Adele Bernhard, 03.05.24)

„The fact that the performance doesn't just breeze along but still turns into a great evening is once again down to the superb ensemble of the Gärtnerplatztheater, above all Jennifer O'Loughlin as Frau Fluth. Vocally ideally cast, with sparkling coloratura, powerful dynamics in the high notes and strong dramatic outbursts, she dominates the action both vocally and theatrically. Bold and cheeky, she pulls the strings, spins intrigues against Falstaff and her husband and has a charisma that is almost overwhelming. No one stands a chance against this woman.” (O-Ton, Andreas H. Hölscher, 27.04.24)

“Jennifer O'Loughlin as Frau Fluth lets her ideas fly through the Gärtnerplatztheater with a rapidly vibrating, concentratedly twittering soprano voice”. (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Paul Schäufele, 28.04.24)

“Jennifer O'Loughlin as Frau Fluth seems to climb ever higher with every coloratura: up to an electrifying high E.” (Abendzeitung, Michael Bastian Weiß, 29.04.24)

“Jennifer O'Loughlin plays a high-spirited, temperamental Frau Fluth.” (Merkur.de, Markus Thiel, 27.04.24)

“Jennifer O'Loughlin, a resolute Frau Fluth with wonderful mousse-like coloratura and luminous top notes.” (Bühne, Klaus Kalchschmid, 29.04.24)

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27.05.24

Three main roles: Leila, Contessa, Amina!

A few weeks ago, Jennifer O'Loughlin caused a sensation as Leila in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles, an ideal role for her, as reported eloquently by the Spanish magazine Mundoclasico:

Jennifer O'Loughlin is an ideal Leila. Her lyric soprano voice has great brilliance in the treble and sounds velvety and round in the middle. Articulation and phrasing are exquisite, the messa di voce emerges naturally and effortlessly. Equally beautifully she tackles a pianissimo that displays great vocal volume. Stylistically her musical and expressive configuration of this role is typical of bel canto, and quite rightly so, for in this opera one hears again and again reminiscences of Donizetti and Bellini overlaid with French sensuality". (Mundoclasico, 26.01.2024)

The Kammersängerin of the Gärtnerplatztheater will soon be performing two other ideal roles: Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro and Amina in La Sonnambula.

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08.02.2024

Welcome!

"The art of singing in its purest form" the cultural platform Online Merker summarized Jennifer O'Loughlin's highly acclaimed performance as Luisa Miller (title role) in a new-production of Verdi's masterpiece at the Munich Gärtnerplatz Theatre having opened in May of this year.

The outstandingly successful member of the Munich Gärtnerplatz Theatre was bestowed the title of a Bavarian Kammersängerin in 2021. However, she has already also performed at the Bavarian State Opera, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, at the New National Theater Tokyo as well as with the Salzburg and the Bregenz Festival and with the International George Enescu Festival in Bucharest. Her most important roles on opera-stage include Haendel’s Semele (title role), Mozart’s Constance (The Abduction from the Seraglio), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda (title role) and Anna Bolena (title role), Bellini’s Amina (La Sonnambula) as well as Verdi’s Luisa Miller (title role) and Gilda (Rigoletto). Numerous others to follow!

Welcome to our artists’ roster, dear Jennifer O’Loughlin!

30.08.23