Biography
Acclaimed for her “irresistible force and passion” and her “her “rich and sonorous” sound Jane Dutton has been engaged and re-engaged in many of the top opera houses in the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu and San Francisco Opera under leading conductors such as Levine, Runnicles, Ozawa, Conlon and Weigle.
Jane made her European opera debut at the Gran Teatre Del Liceu in Barcelona as Anne Boleyn in Saint-Saëns’ Henry VIII and has been re-engaged by the theater each season since her debut for roles including Adalgisa Norma, Pauline Pique Dame, Gertrude Hamlet, Maddalena Rigoletto, Suzuki Madama Butterfly and most recently Waltraute Die Walküre (and covered Fricka) alongside Placido Domingo and Waltraud Meier. She will return to the Liceu in the 2010-2011 season to sing La Nourrice in Paul Dukas’ Ariane et Barbe-Bleue.
She made her debut at the Tokyo Opera Nomori in Elektra with Seiji Ozawa and was subsequently invited by Ozawa to the Saito Kinen Festival. In the 07-08 season, Jane made her UK operatic debut singing Amneris Aida in a new production for English National Opera under Edward Gardner and was immediately invited back for the revival and for Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana in a new production by Richard Jones in the 08-09 season. She followed this with her highly acclaimed role and house debut as Eboli Don Carlos in a Tim Albery production for Opera North. Jane also recorded the role of Eboli for Chandos’ popular Opera in English series. The recording was released in November 2009.
In the US Jane has sung Jordan Baker in John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby, Stephano in Roméo et Juliette, and roles in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Lulu, Madama Butterfly and Rigoletto for the Metropolitan Opera, Der Komponist Ariadne auf Naxos and Sonyetka Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for San Francisco Opera, Grimgerde in Die Walküre for Los Angeles Opera, and Sara Roberto Devereux for New York City Opera.
Other recent US appearances include Amneris Aida for Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Carolina, Opera Birmingham, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Gertrude Hamlet for Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Der Komponist Ariadne auf Naxos, Giulietta Tales of Hoffman for Indianapolis Opera.
Jane’s orchestral repertoire extends from the Baroque to the contemporary. She has worked with the New York Philharmonic/Kurt Masur, Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz, Colorado Symphony/Marin Alsop, Indianapolis Symphony/Mario Venzago, and at the Prague Autumn Festival with the Prague Radio Symphony(John Nelson, conducting). She made her UK concert debut singing Wagner’s Wesendonk Lieder with the BBC Scottish Symphony, which led to an invitation by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Dublin for the same repertoire. She recently performed Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall. 
Forthcoming engagements include, La Nourrice Ariane et Barbe-Bleue at the Liceu in Barcelona, Eboli Don Carlos Sieglinde Die Walküre (act 1) in a concert for Opera Birmingham, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the KBS Symphony at the UN General Assembly in New York City, and Verdi Requiem with the Iowa Symphony.
Jane was a finalist in Placido Domingo’s Operalia 1997 World Opera Competition, she has been awarded prizes in such competitions as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Eastern Regionals, placed second at the MacAllister Competition, the Baltimore Opera Competiton, the Puccini Foundation, Opera Index Competition and first at the Opera at Florham Guild Competiton. 
Throughout her career, the versatile mezzo-soprano has performed a wide range of repertoire with opera companies throughout North America including Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Carolina, Cleveland Opera, New Orleans Opera, Arizona Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Virginia Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Opera Omaha, Central City Opera, Madison Opera, Opera Birmingham, Toledo Opera, Berkshire Opera and Connecticut Grand Opera
Jane Dutton is represented by Intermusica worldwide.