“Shannon Jennings was a vision and sang treacherously difficult music with what seemed to be the greatest of ease and with a voice of beautiful quality and quantity.”
Praised by the Washington Post for her dramatic intensity and vocal ability, Dramatic Soprano Shannon Jennings continues to wow critics and audiences alike. Ms. Jennings has dazzled in exciting role debuts and star billings, including the title roles in Turandot with Gulfshore Opera and Pacific Opera Project, Tosca with Opera Las Vegas and Annapolis Opera, Rusalka with Opera Orlando and Wichita Grand Opera, and Mimì in La bohème with Charleston Opera Theater, Opera Las Vegas, Kentucky Opera, and more. Last season, Ms. Jennings also sang Maria in West Side Story with Wichita Grand Opera, the Soprano Solo in Verdi’s Requiem with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, and she returned to Wichita Grand Opera as Minnie in La fanciulla del West. This season she sings in concert with Charleston Opera Theater and the Charleston Symphony, the Verdi Requiem with the GMChorale and the Orchestra New England, and she will return to Turandot in 2027. Ms. Jennings is a Grantee of the Olga Forrai Foundation for dramatic voices.
Dramatic soprano
“Shannon Jennings is one of those rare sopranos who can actually project the to-die-for beauty of Turandot with the icy steel of the role’s vocal challenge. Jennings is also a fine actress whose gradual melting under the persistence of Calaf’s adoration was believable.”
– San Francisco Classical Voice
UPCOMING Schedule
Soloist
GALA CONCERT
Soprano Solo
Verdi REQUIEM
2025-26 Schedule
Maria
WEST SIDE STORY
Turandot
TURANDOT
Soprano Solo
Verdi REQUIEM
Minnie
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST
“a small, slender soprano from Orlando, FL, who seems to have an industrial grade amplifier in her throat…”
Other highlights include Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, the title role in Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon with Resonance Works and Wolf Trap Opera, Marguerite in Faust with Annapolis Opera, Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte with Palm Beach Opera, and Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd with Wolf Trap Opera alongside the National Symphony Orchestra. Equally at home on the recital stage, Ms. Jennings is an avid concert programmer– especially in Spanish-language repertoire, inspired by her Cuban heritage.
PERFORMANCE VideoS
“Her darker sound and clear tone have a blooming quality that easily filled the big opera-house acoustics.”
“Surely she is the next Renée Fleming. Her captivating plummy rounded sounds were thrilling.”
RECORDED ARTIST
Ms. Jennings has been featured by Oscar-winning film composer Michael Giacchino. In 2019, she was the soloist in the world premier of Giacchino’s ADVENT to commemorate NASA’s 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing, making her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 2020, she made her recording debut as a soloist on Giacchino’s first solo album, Travelogue Volume 1, available under Death Waltz Originals & Mondo Records.
“…a natural in the title role.”
“Shannon Jennings lives up to the star billing.”
