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Jennifer Rivera has earned herself a spot as an important American mezzo soprano, and has been heard in opera houses throughout the United States and Europe. She began her career by spending eight seasons at the New York City Opera after being selected as their “Debut Artist of the Year”, and went on to debut in Italy at the Teatro Regio di Torino, in Germany at the Berlin Staatsoper and in Austria at the Innsbruck Festival for Alte Musik to name a few. She can be heard as Nerone on the Harmonia Mundi recording of Agrippina conducted by Rene Jacobs, and on the Sony Music recording of Pergolesi’s L’Olimpiade conducted by Alessandro DeMarchi. Her blog, Trying to Remain Operational, which has been written about in the Los Angeles Times and The Daily Beast, was selected as a top four finalist in the “Best Arts Blogger in North America Competition” held by the Spring for Music Festival.

She can be found on twitter @jjennymr, blogging at www.jenniferrivera.squarespace.com, or at her professional website www.jenniferrivera.com. She resides in New York City with her boyfriend Michael (the creator and moderator of the OperaNow! Podcast) and her cat Max.

Blog Entries by Jennifer Rivera

Can We All Stop Trying to 'Have It All' Please?

(0) Comments | Posted December 17, 2012 | 2:04 PM

A lot of good stuff can happen to you, and it can even happen all at once. My life is something of an embarrassment of riches at the moment, and I'm really trying not to take anything for granted. I'm about to have a baby -- literally, about to have...

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Why Anyone Who Values the Arts Should Care About This Election

(61) Comments | Posted November 3, 2012 | 11:40 PM

This may seem like a no-brainer since most artists tend to be the NPR-listening, PBS-watching, artsy fartsy liberal types. However, I did notice that a few of my facebook friends (okay, eight out of 650) "liked" Mitt Romney, and with the race in a statistical dead heat, I'm guessing there...

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The Gotham Chamber Opera: When Small is the Next Big Thing

(1) Comments | Posted October 17, 2012 | 4:45 PM

Sometimes keeping things small can really pay off.

I first became acquainted with the Gotham Chamber Opera just over 10 years ago when my best friend Georgia was hired to sing a role in their inaugural production; Mozart's Il Sogno di Scipione, directed by Christopher Alden. At the time,...

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Kiss Me, but Finish Singing That High Note First

(5) Comments | Posted May 17, 2012 | 2:27 PM

After my last blog post about being an opera singer ended up being surprisingly controversial (there have been articles about gay marriage and abortion that have inspired far fewer inflammatory comments), I thought I would follow it up with something a bit lighter and more entertaining. Specifically: How...

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Shouldn't You Be Fatter? (And Other Opera Singer Myths)

(163) Comments | Posted May 3, 2012 | 4:51 PM

If I'm in a good mood, I'm one of those people who chats with strangers. Shop clerks, waiters, baristas, shoe salesmen, you name it -- if I'm feeling friendly, I'll start a conversation with any of them about the weather or what I'm buying or my favorite foods. And if...

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Arts In America

(27) Comments | Posted April 19, 2012 | 1:13 PM

This post is part of Spring for Music's Great Arts Blogger Challenge, which posed a series of questions to bloggers and had readers vote on their favorites, narrowing it down from 42 bloggers to, currently, the final four. Three judges -- Katrine Ames, former senior editor at Newsweek;...

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