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Barbara Symphony debut in Mahler’s
Symphony No. 2 and a return to the
Castleton Festival as the soloist in
Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. On the
opera stage, she performed the role of
Mimì in La bohème in her Seattle Opera
debut, Juliette in Roméo et Juliette in a
return to Arizona Opera and her role
debut of Norina in Don Pasquale in a return to the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. Ms. Black has performed with the
Metropolitan Opera, the Atlanta Opera
and the Teatro Municipal in Santiago,
among many others. She played Elle in
the one-woman production La voix
humaine for the Castleton Festival
with Maestro Lorin Maazel.
Jennifer Black is making her debut with
the BSO.

Javier Arrey
Masetto

A graduate of Washington National
Opera’s DomingoCafritz Young Artist Program, Chilean
baritone Javier Arrey was a finalist at
the 2009 Cardiff Singer of the World
competition and winner of the CulturArte prize at the 2011 Operalia
competition in Moscow. Mr. Arrey
made an acclaimed debut under Lorin
Maazel as Iago (Otello) at the Castleton
Festival and continued that association
in the summer of 2014 in the title role
of Don Giovanni.
This season, in addition to his appearance with the BSO under Markus
Stenz, he appears as Alphonse (La
favorite) with Washington Concert
Opera under Antony Walker and gives
performances of Orff’s Carmina Burana
with Charlotte Symphony under Christopher Warren-Green. He will make his
Wiener Staatsoper debut next season.
Javier Arrey also features as Lescaut
on the recording of Manon Lescaut on
Decca Classics under the baton of
Plácido Domingo.
Javier Arrey is making his debut with
the BSO.

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Pureum Jo
Zerlina

Pureum Jo is in
her second season
with the Houston
Grand Opera Studio; last season her roles
included Papagena in The Magic Flute
and Pamina in select performances of that
opera. She has performed the title role
of Matsukaze (Spoleto Festival U.S.A.,
Lincoln Center Festival); Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites (The Chautauqua
Institution) and Micaela in Carmen. In
recital and concert, she has performed
in Juilliard’s Wednesdays at One series
and New York City’s Voices of Ascension
in Haydn’s Mass in Time of War; and in
Mozart’s Laudate Dominum, Requiem,
and Coronation Mass. This past summer,
she sang Juliette in Roméo et Juliette with
the Aspen Music Festival. During the
2015–2016 season, she will sing Becca
in HGO company’s