Jeanette Fontaine, mezzo-soprano, maintains an active performance schedule in opera, concert, and recital venues. Recent performances include: a recital featuring the Brahms Liebeslieder-Walzer with faculty members from The University of Alabama and The University of Mississippi and participation in a chamber recital at Indiana University which included excerpts from Bach's Mattäuspassion. She was the mezzo-soprano soloist in performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Mozart's Requiem with the Starkville Symphony Orchestra. In the spring of 2014, she performed the role of Maestra delle Novizie in Suor Angelica with Opera Birmingham and covered the role of Little Buttercup in Natchez Opera Festival's production of H.M.S. Pinafore. Other operatic roles include: Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Principessa in Suor Angelica, Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Nancy in Albert Herring, and Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte.
Dr. Fontaine is also active in scholarly pursuits. Her article entitled "He Sang, She Sang: The Gendered Song Cycle" appeared in the September/October 2013 issue of the NATS Journal of Singing. She gave an interdisciplinary presentation in 2016 with two of her colleagues at the Mississippi Music Teachers Association State Conference in Clinton, MS: "A Poetry and Song Collaboration: The Synergy of Text and Music."
Dr. Fontaine has taught voice for the past eight years and coaches French, Italian, and Russian diction. She is an Assistant Professor of Voice and the Voice Area Coordinator at Mississippi State University.
Dr. Fontaine is also active in scholarly pursuits. Her article entitled "He Sang, She Sang: The Gendered Song Cycle" appeared in the September/October 2013 issue of the NATS Journal of Singing. She gave an interdisciplinary presentation in 2016 with two of her colleagues at the Mississippi Music Teachers Association State Conference in Clinton, MS: "A Poetry and Song Collaboration: The Synergy of Text and Music."
Dr. Fontaine has taught voice for the past eight years and coaches French, Italian, and Russian diction. She is an Assistant Professor of Voice and the Voice Area Coordinator at Mississippi State University.
