Sharleen Joynt
Canadian soprano Sharleen Joynt’s recent season highlights include her return to Seattle Opera for her debut in the role of Morgana Alcina, as well as her debut at Detroit Opera as Bess in Missy Mazzoli’s critically acclaimed Breaking The Waves. Season 2024-25 begins with her Wexford Festival and role debut as Daria Garbinati Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (also known as Viva la Mamma); she later travels to Seattle to appear as Queen of the Night Die Zauberflöte with Seattle Opera.
Past successes include her role and company début as Gilda Rigoletto at Edmonton Opera, at Florida Grand Opera and at Opera Colorado; Controller Flight at Pacific Opera Victoria and at Seattle Opera—filmed and live-streamed; Winnie in Lembit Beecher’s Sky on Swings, a new opera about Alzheimer’s disease starring Frederica von Stade with Opera Philadelphia, Musetta La Bohème at Vancouver Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria, and Cunegonde Candide at Tanglewood Music Festival, Ravinia Music Festival, Anchorage Opera, with Orlando Philharmonic and most recently when she jumped into the role for an indisposed colleague at Opera de Lyon in her French debut. She also appeared as Amore Gluck’s Orfeo at Seattle Opera, and as Euridice Orphée in her return to Edmonton Opera.
“Sharleen Joynt en Cunégonde est une formidable découverte, qui paraît disposer de deux voix : dans le grave, la couleur et l’intonation sont typiques du musical américain, alors que son registre aigu est celui d’une pure soprano colorature, d’une extrême agilité et aux suraigus faciles. Son air redoutable « Glitter and be gay » relève d’un vrai feu d’artifice vocal, déclenchant, presqu’à la fin du premier acte donc, les applaudissements du public.” Irma Foletti, Bachtrack, 23 December 2022
“The show-stopper was Cunegonde’s disquisition on feminine beauty, “Glitter and Be Gay,” in which Sharleen Joynt culminated coloratura virtuosity and athletic physicality with a sustained series of powerhouse high E-flats, ending with a whoop that ascended to the otherwise-unsingable tonic of the key, a high A-flat.” —The Berkshire Edge
“Sharleen Joynt, a petite beauty with a glorious coloratura soprano voice, delivered a knockout performance of the killer aria “Glitter and Be Gay,” and danced her way through the show in a remarkably effortless way.” —WTTV
“Sharleen Joynt was the essence of goodness as the hunchback’s sequestered daughter. Joynt’s sweetness of timbre was matched by spot-on intonation and effortless coloratura that veered excitingly into the vocal stratosphere. Her “Caro nome” was giddy with Gilda’s first flush of love palpably felt rather than a mere display piece. Joynt and Thomas’s voices blended felicitously in duet. After Gilda has sacrificed herself to save the life of the faithless Duke, Joynt sang her farewell at half voice, her death radiating pathos.” —South Florida Classical Review
| Composer | Work | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Bizet | Carmen | Zuniga |
| Blanchard | Champion | Young Emile Griffith |
| Britten | A Midsummer’s Night Dream | Quince |
| Donizetti | Anna Bolenna | Lord Rochefort |
| Gershwin | Porgy and Bess | Crown |
| Gounod | Faust | Mephistopheles |
| Handel | Hercules | title |
| Handel | Ariodante | Rè di Scozia |
| Heggie | Moby Dick | Queequeg |
| Menotti | Amahl and the Night’s Visitors | Balthazar |
| Monteverdi | L’incoronazione di Poppea | Seneca |
| Mozart | Don Giovanni | Il Commendatore, Leporello |
| Mozart | Cosi fan tutte | Don Alfonso |
| Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Sarastro, Sprecher |
| Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Osmin |
| Massenet | Werther | Johann |
| Offenbach | Les contes d’Hoffmann | Crespel |
| Puccini | La Bohème | Colline |
| Puccini | Tosca | Angelotti |
| Puts | Silent Night | Father Palmer |
| Schreker | Die Gezeichneten | Citizen 3, Giant citizen |
| Saint-Saens | Samson et Dalila | Abimelech |
| Sondheim | Sweeney Todd | Judge Turpin |
| Sonnenberg | The Summer King | Sam Bankhead |
| Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin | Prince Gremin |
| Verdi | Un Ballo in Maschera | Sam |
| Verdi | Aida | Ramfis |
| Verdi | La Traviata | Dr. Grenvil |
| Verdi | Il Trovatore | Ferrando |
| Verdi | Macbeth | Banquo |
| Verdi | Simone Boccanegra | Pietro |
| Verdi | Rigoletto | Count Monterone, Sparafucile |
| Wolf-Ferrar | Le donne curiose | Ottavio |
| Composer | Work |
|---|---|
| Bach | St. Matthew Passion (Jesus) |
| Beethoven | Symphony No.9 |
| Handel | Messiah |
| Haydn | Creation |
| Verdi | Requiem |
Contact
Deborah Sanders
Founder and Director
deborah@arbourartists.com