Ermonela Jaho on her heartbreaking soprano roles

Ermonela Jaho

Ermonela Jaho (Violetta)

Ermonela Jaho (Violetta) and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Germont)

Ermonela Jaho (Violetta) at Opera Australia

Ermonela Jaho (Violetta)

Simon Keenlyside (Germont) and Ermonela Jaho (Violetta)

Ermonela Jaho (Cio-Cio San)

Ermonela Jaho (Suor Angelica)

By Mark Pullinger, 17 February 2017

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

“On stage, your soul is naked”: Ermonela Jaho on her heartbreaking soprano roles