Since the season 2018/19 Jennifer Zein is a regular guest at the Opera Leipzig, where she can be seen in such roles as GRETEL in “Hänsel und Gretel” under the musical direction of Ulf Schirmer, FRASQUITA in “Carmen”, ESMERALDA in “The Bartered Bride” and DWARF KLECKS in “Snow White”. In 2003 she sang her first CLORINDA in “La Cenerentola” at the Cologne Opera.

As FRASQUITA in “Carmen” she had guest performances at the Weimar National Theatre and in spring 2024 as ANNE TRUELOVE in “The Rake's Progress” at the Plauen/Zwickau Theatre. Here, she also knew success in New Year’s Concerts in 2025. Also in 2025 she portrays MARY in Schreker’s “Der ferne Klang” at the Osnabrück Theatre.

At the International Festival Gut Immling she debuted in 2019 as ADELE in “Die Fledermaus” and was CLORINDA in “La Cenerentola” here in 2021. She also participated in numerous concerts here.

After completing her studies at the Interlochen Arts Academy in the USA she performed in 2013 for the first time in Europe at the Salzburg Festival within the scope of the “Young Singers Project”. Here, she sang the ELF in Mendelssohn’s ”A Midsummer NIght’s Dream”.
She took master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender and Renato Bruson (Opera Sabbioneta Programme)

Jennifer is Prize Winner of the 2014 Mozart Prize of the Grandi Voci Salzburg Singing Competition and the Nuovo Canto Opera Contest of the operas Hamburg and Milianao in 2018.

She succeeded as PAPAGENA in 2013/14 and as the QUEEN OF THE NIGHT in 2014 to 2017 at the Oper im Berg Festival in Salzburg.

She also sang a GALA CONCERT here next to Grace Bumbry.
Further performances brought Jennifer Zein with a Lehar programme to the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in China, to the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bonn Beethoven Orchestra with Stefan Blunier, to the Opera House Cairo, to the Glass Hall of the Vienna Music Association, to the Prinzregent Theatre Munich and to the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.