San Diego Opera debut. Recent performances by American mezzo soprano Jill Grove includes Ulrica in A Masked Ball at New Orleans Opera, Amneris at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Canadian Opera Company, Erda in Siegfried and First Norn in Götterdämmerung with Munich Staatsoper. Notable performances include Erda in Götterdämmerung and Das Rheingold, Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Madelon in Andrea Chénier, Pantalis in Mefistofele, Emilia in Otello, Mary in The Flying Dutchman, Auntie in Peter Grimes, Aithra in Die ägyptische Helena and Cornelia in Julius Caesar in Egypt at The Metropolitan Opera, Erda in Götterdämmerung, Countess Geschwitz in Lulu and the Nurse in Die Frau Ohne Schatten for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Jenny Reefer in The Mother of Us All at San Francisco Opera, Dame Quickly in Falstaff, Omniscient Sea-Shell in Die ägyptische Helena and Ursule in Béatrice et Bénédict with Santa Fe Opera, and Erda in Siegfried, Ottavia’s nurse in L’incoronazione di Poppea and Zita in Gianni Schicchi for Los Angeles Opera. She can be heard on numerous recordings and DVDs. She’s a winner of the ARIA award, a Richard Tucker Career Grant and winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She is a former member of the Merola Program at San Francisco Opera and the Houston Grand Opera Studio.