American mezzo-soprano Kristine Jepson has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Opéra National de Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bavarian State Opera, Gran Teatro del Liceu, Netherlands Opera, San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and Santa Fe Opera Festival, among other companies.

Highlights this season include Ms. Jepson’s debut at the Theater an der Wien as Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova and Adalgisa (Norma) with the Opera Company of Philadelphia.

Ms. Jepson made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Britten’s Death in Venice and has since returned to the company in many roles, including Stephano in Romeo et Juliette, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos and most recently, Idamante in Idomeneo. During the past three seasons, she appeared in two new productions at the Metropolitan Opera under the company’s music director James Levine: as Ascanio in Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, and as Siebel in Gounod’s Faust.