Ermonela Jaho
In demand across the world for her vivid interpretations and identification with the roles she performs, soprano Ermonela Jaho is particularly recognized for her portrayals of Violetta in La traviata, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly and Suor Angelica in Il trittico. In the 2018/19 season, Jaho reprised the role of Suor Angelica under Kirill Petrenko at the Bayerische Staatsoper. She also reprised the role of Madama Butterfly in Munich in 2019, which she had previously sung at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. In the same season, Jaho brought her interpretation of Violetta back to the Opéra national de Paris, Covent Garden and Staatsoper Berlin. She has portrayed Verdi’s tragic heroine in more than fifteen opera houses, from the Metropolitan Opera to the Sydney Opera House, as well as in Vienna, Munich, Verona, Madrid, Stuttgart, Marseilles, Stockholm, Hamburg, Lyon, Buenos Aires and on tour in Japan with the Royal Opera House.
Ermonela Jaho was born in Albania and began to take singing lessons when she was just six years old. At the age of fourteen, she was taken to the Tirana Opera House for the first time to hear La traviata and grew determined to become an opera singer. At nineteen, she won a scholarship to study with Katia Ricciarelli in Mantua, and a year later moved to Rome to continue her studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Over the next years, Jaho won singing competitions in Milan, Ancona and Rovereto, and began her professional career appearing as Mimì in La Bohème at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Micaëla in Carmen at the Teatro Verdi Trieste, and Irène in Sapho at the Wexford Festival Opera.
In addition to her portrayals of opera’s most famous Italian heroines, from operas by Bellini, Donizetti, Puccini, Rossini and Verdi, Ermonela Jaho’s broad and diverse repertoire spans Massenet and Offenbach, as well as operas by Auber, Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Handel, Milhaud, Mozart, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Johann Strauss, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. She began the 2020/2021 season with her debut at the Greek National Opera in Athens as Cio-Cio-San, after which she returned to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, to Paris as Marguerite in Faust and to Munich as Suor Angelica. Jaho will begin the 2021/22 season with her debut at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville as Cio-Cio-San, after which she will appear for the first time in the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur at the Wiener Staatsoper and for her debut with Opera de Oviedo. The soprano is also slated to make her role debut as Nedda in Pagliacci at Covent Garden, appear as Mimì in La Bohème at the Teatro Real in Madrid and return to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées as Thaïs.
In the 2019/20 season, Jaho returned to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Desdemona in Otello, to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as Liú in Turandot, and to the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich as Violetta. The 2018/19 season also saw her return to Puccini’s La rondine for the Deutsche Oper Berlin and take on the role of Anna in the one-act version of the composer’s first opera, Le Villi, not heard publicly since 1884, and presented in the autumn by Opera Rara at London’s Royal Festival Hall. The season was framed by her debut as Valentine in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots in Paris and her return to Opera Australia to sing Anna Bolena in the first of their Donizetti Three Queens Trilogy. She also recently sang in the première of Thaïs in Beijing and made her Dutch National Opera debut as Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann.
Performances with Ermonela Jaho
with Ermonela Jaho, Stephanie Maitland, Saimir Pirgu, Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Madama Butterfly
Cast on Saturday 7. March 2026
with Ermonela Jaho, Stephanie Maitland, Saimir Pirgu, Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Madama Butterfly
Cast on Tuesday 10. March 2026
Abo 3
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Saison 2024/2025
Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
22. Oktober 2024: FIN DE PARTIE
14. Jänner 2025: BALLETT: SHIFTING SYMMETRIES
11. Februar 2025: IL TROVATORE
22. April 2025: ARABELLA
03. Juni 2025: CARMEN
with Ermonela Jaho, Stephanie Maitland, Saimir Pirgu, Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Madama Butterfly
Cast on Saturday 14. March 2026
with Ermonela Jaho, Stephanie Maitland, Saimir Pirgu, Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Madama Butterfly
Cast on Tuesday 17. March 2026
Abo 4
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Saison 2024/2025
Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
29. Oktober 2024: FIN DE PARTIE
26. November 2024: BALLETT: THE WINTER’S TALE
18. Februar 2025: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
15. April 2025: ANDREA CHÉNIER
13. Mai 2025: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE