Soprano
Jade Phoenix
MARS, The Cunning Little VixenBiography
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. Most recently she sang the role of Rosalinde in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus tour with INO. A graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, in 2020 Jade won the Flax Trust Music Bursary in Belfast, and in 2021 she 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. Jade also won the ESB Feis Ceoil Dramatic Cup in 2022. Highlight roles include Iris in Handel’s Semele (Opera Collective Ireland), Ariele in Halévy’s La Tempesta, and Rosetta in Marco Tutino’s La Ciociara (Wexford Festival Opera). Jade will sing Fox/Crested Hen in Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen for INO’s national tour in 2026.
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.
July 2025