American contralto Jasmin White “has it all” (VRT News). Their deep, flexible, warm and agile voice exudes charisma that captures an audience from their first note. White possesses a remarkable versatility, adapting both vocal technique and stage presence to seamlessly navigate diverse genres; they can shift from the light and charming demands of Rossini, requiring "a smile, kindness, cordiality, quietly and with the greatest of ease," to the profound depths of Wagner’s drama. In this realm of Wagnerian mystery and power, their mature voice becomes "beautiful and full of pathos, perfectly in their element”. (Knopskaya, Deknopper from Cultuurpakt)

 

The 2025/26 season marks Jasmin White’s second season as a member of the soloist ensemble at the historic Austrian opera house, Volksoper Wien. White will begin this season as the alto soloist in the Duruflé "Requiem" at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Next, White will take on the role of Juno in Handel's Semele with Dutch National Opera. Then, they are set to return to Salzburg as Erda in Wagner's Das Rheingold with Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Osterfestspiele Salzburg and then again later in Berlin. In spring 2026, White will perform as the contralto soloist for "St. John Passion" with Il pomo d'Oro and Maxim Emelyanychev at Essen Philharmonic Hall. Throughout this season at Volksoper, White will make their role debut as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, as well as performing as the alto soloist in Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" and as Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte. 

Last season at Volksoper, White performed Die Zauberflöte (Dritte Dame), Jolanthe und der Nussknacker (Martha), La Rondine (Suzy), and Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Frau Reich). Earlier in the season, White made a variety of debuts, including Disinganno in Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Les Arts Florissants, Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and with Il Pomo d'Oro for two baroque concert productions, including Alcina (Bradamante) and Jephtha (Hamor) at The Barbican, MUPA Budapest, NOSPR Katowice, Auditorio Oviedo, Madrid’s Teatro Real, Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Konzerthaus Dortmund, and Vienna’s Theater an der Wien. In spring 2025, White welcomed a trio of Mahler symphonies: Mahler 2 at the Osterfestspiele Salzburg with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, then returned to their home country to perform Mahler 3 with Kansas City Symphony in May and again with Oregon Symphony in June. Finally, White closed the season with a newly programmed German Lieder recital with pianist Michał Biel in Bergen, Norway, and a summer tour of Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Les Arts Florissants.

 

In 2023, White won first place in the Queen Sonja Singing Competition in Norway and second place and the audience-awarded Musiq3 Prize of the Public in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium. 
From 2022-24, White completed two years of training in the Opernstudio at Volksoper Wien, singing roles such as Martha in The Gospel According to the Other Mary by John Adams, Mary in Der fliegende Holländer, Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and Frau Reich in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. During this time, White also debuted at Dutch National Opera as The Historian in the world premiere of The Shell Trial, Teatro dell’opera di Roma as Erste Geist in Schumann’s Manfred, as the mezzo soloist in John Adams’ El Niño with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and American Modern Opera Company, and in multiple concert halls across South Korea for the Queen Elisabeth Competition Winners Recital Tour. 

An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a Cherokee-TERO-certified Indigenous fine artist, hailing from Grand Ronde, Oregon, White is also a graduate of the Artist Diploma in Opera Studies program at The Juilliard School, the Master of Music in Voice program at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Bachelor of Music in Vocal Arts program at the University of Southern California. White currently resides in Vienna, Austria, and studies with Eytan Pessen.

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Biography written by Askonas Holt.​

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