Soprano Jean Danton’s distinguished career has allowed her to explore a wide range of musical styles, from the Baroque to the Contemporary. She has performed extensively throughout the United States in recitals, oratorio, and opera and has appeared as a soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society, Oregon Bach Festival, Boston Baroque, and the Boston Pops.
Ms. Danton made her Carnegie Hall debut performing Handel’s Messiah with the Masterworks Chorus and her Lincoln Center debut at Avery Fisher Hall with the National Chorale. Recent engagements include Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Nashua Symphony and Viennese operetta with the North Carolina Symphony.
Ms. Danton’s operatic performances include roles in Le nozze di Figaro, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, and Gianni Schicchi. Her stage roles include Polly in Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera, Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Miss Silverpeal in Mozart’s The Impresario, Polly in John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, and Quiteria in the US. premiere of Telemann’s Don Quixote.
Ms. Danton enjoys an active career as a recitalist with highlights including New York solo recitals for the Trinity Church Concert Series and the Twentieth Century Music Series at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Carmel Bach Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, and Bar Harbor Music Festival.
She has recorded several CDs for Albany Records and can be heard on the PBS documentaries The Nobel Legacy and Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back and Mary Magdalen for Lifetime.