Joélle Harvey

Acclaimed by the Financial Times as singing one of the "most delectably mellifluous Susanna to have been heard here for some years”, American soprano Joélle Harvey has built a reputation as one of finest singers of her generation, performing major roles on stages such as the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Royal Opera House, Zurich Opera, Teatro La Fenice, and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. She last appeared with Music of the Baroque in September 2024.

The 2025-26 season is anchored by the operas of Mozart: her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Santa Fe Opera’s new Christopher Luscombe production of The Magic Flute, conducted by Harry Bicket, and a reprisal of Pamina with The Metropolitan Opera. On the concert platform, Joélle Harvey performs Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst; Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska (debut); Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Magnificat with Bernard Labadie and the San Francisco Symphony; a program of Mozart with the Slovenian Philharmonic and Jonathan Cohen; and Bach cantatas with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Joélle Harvey began the 2024-25 season with Dame Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque for Haydn’s Creation, and returned to Chicago later in the season for the composer’s Paukenmesse with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Manfred Honeck conducting). She sang Mozart’s Requiem with the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Stéphane Denève, a program of Poulenc and Ravel in a return to the Milwaukee Symphony, and Mahler’s 2nd Symphony (Resurrection) for conductor Robin Ticciati’s final season with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. She performed Handel’s Messiah with the Houston Symphony, selections from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Cincinnati Symphony, Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Magnificat with the Cleveland Orchestra, the St. John Passion with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Bernard Labadie, and Handel cantatas with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society and Jonathan Cohen. During the summer of 2025, she returned to the role of Anne Trulove in Chas Rader-Shieber’s new production of The Rake’s Progress with Des Moines Opera.

Joélle Harvey has also performed with ensembles including the Cincinnati Symphony, the New York Philharmonic and Philharmonia, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, the New World Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestra. She has performed on the greatest opera stages worldwide, including performing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolitan Opera and the title role in Handel’s Semele at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

A native of Bolivar, New York, Joélle Harvey received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in vocal performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She began her career training at Glimmerglass Opera (now The Glimmerglass Festival) and the Merola Opera Program.