Henschel, Jane (1949– )

US mezzo-soprano. She studied at UCLA and sang Haydn's Berenice and Monteverdi's Ottavia at the 1977 Aspen Festival. She made her European debut at Aachen in 1977, and sang at Wuppertal and Dortmund as Schoeck's Penthesilea, Eboli, Amneris, and Brangaene. Her Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Londo, debut was as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten/The Woman without a Shadow in 1992; she returned as Ulrica, and Fricka in Die Walküre/The Valkyrie in 1994. She sang Birtwistle's Judy at Amsterdam in 1993, and was engaged as Cassandre in Berlioz's Les Troyens/The Trojans at La Scala in 1996. Her Glyndebourne debut was in 1994, as Baba the Turk in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.