Carla Janzen

Soprano

619 W. Stratford Pl. #402 – Chicago, Illinois 60657 – 773/418-4724 cell – cmj@carlajanzen.com

BIOGRAPHY

Soprano Carla Janzen is a young artist poised to create an exciting career. Most recently, she appeared with the Aspen Opera Theater Center in a workshop of a new opera, California Fictions by Mason Bates where she originated the role of Victoria. Ms. Janzen has spent the past three summers with the Aspen Music Festival where she has been featured in scenes from Susannah, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Così fan tutte, Faust and I Pagliacci. Another recent highlight was her appearance alongside acclaimed author and radio personality Garrison Keillor as “The Opera Singer” in the renowned Steppenwolf Theatre’s reading of Studs Turkel’s book Will the Circle Be Unbroken in Chicago’s Millennium Park.

A graduate of Chicago Opera Theatre’s Young Artist Program, Ms. Janzen’s repertoire includes Mimi, excerpts of which she has performed in concert with the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Repertory Orchestra; the Female Chorus in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Donna Giacinta in Mozart’s La Finta Semplice, and the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Incornazione di Poppea, also at CCM. A signature role is Fiordiligi, which she has performed with Intermezzo Young Artists Development Program and Opera in the Ozarks, and covered at Chicago Opera Theatre. While at COT, she also covered the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia.

Ms. Janzen has also been heard as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah, and in concerts of opera and operetta excerpts throughout the US and Germany. In 2007 she was chosen as a winner of the Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition, and was featured in concert with Maestro Lawrence Renes and the Aspen Sinfonia. She is also a two time central regional finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

A native of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Ms. Janzen earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She is a student of master teacher W. Stephen Smith.