Jeanne Wentworth

music director

Jeanne Wentworth has sung a broad range of principal operatic and oratorio roles, premiers of original compositions, and recordings throughout her professional career. Most recently, Ms. Wentworth originated the principal role of Camino Woman in the world premiere of Via Lactea with Opera Bend. 

Ms. Wentworth’s operatic credits include performances with Opera Orchestra of New York and with the Spoleto Festival USA. She has sung multiple seasons with the Dayton Opera. She has also performed with Michigan Opera Theatre. Ms. Wentworth has performed with Pacific Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Johnstown Symphony and with the Plum Creek Orchestra. She has also sung a variety of roles with the Santa Fe, Sarasota and Pittsburgh Opera Companies. 

In addition to her operatic repertoire, Ms. Wentworth’s oratorio performances include recordings of Haydn’s CREATION, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, and the Durufle´. Other performances include Handel’s Messiah, the Requiems of Mozart and Faure´, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven’s Mass in C, and the Pergolesi Stabat Mater.

Ms. Wentworth can be heard on the recording of Clepsydra, an operatic installation by Venezuelan composer and conductor Efrain Amaya. Ms. Wentworth has also recorded a series of original compositions for voice and piano by Efrain Amaya. Additionally, Ms. Wentworth was selected as the featured vocalist for the “9-11” commemorative performance of the Johnstown Symphony in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, broadcast around the world. 

Ms. Wentworth has won numerous vocal awards, including a winner of the Liederkranz Vocal Competition, finalist in the Gerda Lissner Foundation Vocal Competition, and finalist in the Solo Competition for the Oratorio Society of New York. Other awards include selection as a Metropolitan Opera National Finalist and a Finalist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. 

In addition to her performing career, Ms. Wentworth has been a vocal instructor at the Duquesne University young artists program, and at the Thomas Studio of Voice, both in Pittsburgh, PA. Jeanne provides instruction in vocal performance, stage acting, and preparation and coaching of vocal repertoire for beginning, pre-college and pre-professional vocal students.  Several of Jeanne's students have gone on to study classical voice and graduate from prestigious music schools, notably Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Indiana, Bloomington.