Soprano

Jade Phoenix

Fledermaus

Biography

Jade made her Irish National Opera debut as Nora in Evangelia Rigaki’s Old Ghosts in 2023, and also appeared that season in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier as first Noble Orphan. She graduated Bachelor of Music Performance from the Royal Irish Academy of Music with First Class Honours in 2020, studying with Mary Brennan and Dearbhla Collins. While there she sang her first major role, Charlotte Badger in Stephen McNeff’s Banished at Kilmainham Goal, before going on to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In 2020 Jade won the Flax Trust Music Bursary in Belfast. That year she also participated in Wexford Festival Opera’s Academy programme, where she received coaching and masterclasses from such world-renowned musicians as Juan Diego Flores, Ernesto Palacio, Dmitry Vdovin, and Ermonela Jaho, and sang the role of Alice in the Falstaff Chronicles (after Verdi’s Falstaff) as part of Wexford Festival Opera. In 2021 Jade won both the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition Bursary and the Danone Ireland Young Outstanding Female Artist Award, and participated in the Rossini Opera Festival Academy in Pesaro, singing the role of Modestina in Rossini’s il Viaggio a Reims. Jade won the ESB Feis Ceoil Dramatic Cup in 2022.   

Highlight roles include Iris in Handel’s Semele (Opera Collective Ireland) and Ariele in Halévy’s La Tempesta (Wexford Festival Opera). Jade’s most recent success was for her role as Rosetta in Marco Tutino’s La Ciociara with Wexford Festival Opera 2023, which received a five-star review from The Irish Times and Best Performance of the Year from Operawire.