Soprano Jessica Rivera has collaborated with many noted contemporary composers, several having written works expressly for her, including John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, Gabriela Lena Frank, Ian Krouse, Jonathan Leshnoff, Nico Muhly and Paola Prestini. She has appeared with conductors Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Robert Spano, Markus Stenz, Bernard Haitink and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Rivera made her Santa Fe Opera debut in 2005 as Nuria in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, a role she reprised for the 2007 GRAMMY Award-winning Deutsche Grammophon recording. In 2007 she released Jessica Rivera Sings Romantic Music for Urtext Digital Classics, a critically acclaimed recording that included the premiere of Krouse’s Cantar de los Cantares, written especially for her.

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