Jasmin Jorias
Mezzo-Soprano
In the 2025/26 season, the German mezzo-soprano Jasmin Jorias celebrates several artistic milestones:
With a double debut, she appears for the first time with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen and under the baton of Fabio Luisi in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. In Basel, she performs Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the Basel Symphony Orchestra at the Casino under Markus Poschner, and she sings the role of Leokadja Begbick in Brecht/Weill’s *Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny* for the fourth time—this time at Theater Basel, directed by Benedikt von Peter and conducted by Stefan Klingele.
The German mezzo-soprano Jasmin Jorias has been a member of the Theater
Basel ensemble since the 2019/20 season. Her roles last season include Waltraute in the Ring of the Nibelungs and the 2nd Norn in Götterdämmerung, as well as in Die Walküren, where she covers Fricka, and also in Rheingold. She sings Carmen in Carmen by Bizet and the role of Bobin in the world premiere of “Pferd frisst Hut” by Herbert Grönemeyer, directed by Herbert Fritsch. In September 2024, she will make a guest appearance as Bobin at the Ruhrtriennale.
Last season, she sang Herodias in Salome, followed by La Donna in Intolleranza. In 2025 she will make a guest appearance as la Donna in Antwerp/Ghent. In November 2022, Theater Basel staged a children’s play written by her, which she directed and performed herself, accompanied by a trio; this play is already in its third season and there will be a second part.
Jasmin Jorias sang the role of the mother in Dallapicola’s “Il Prigioniero” with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest under the direction of Frank Ollu in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. In previous seasons at Theater Basel, she also sang Podtochina, Pretzel Seller and Osipovna in Shostakovich’s opera The Nose and the solo alto in Johann Sebastian Bach’s staged St. Matthew Passion, as well as Andersen’s Tales, The Magic Flute and she rehearsed Auntie in Peter Grimes, which was not performed due to the pandemic. She made guest appearances at the Cologne Opera as the Witch in “Hansel
and Gretel” and at the Komische Oper as Czipra in “Der Zigeunerbaron” under the direction of Tobias Kratzer and the musical direction of Stefan Soltesz. Leokadja Begbick, Old Lady, Kabanicha, Donna Elvira, Brigitta and Miss Quickly are roles she has enjoyed performing in recent years.
Engagements have taken her to the Komische Oper Berlin, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Bühnen Wuppertal, the Volkstheater Rostock, the state theaters in Schwerin, Oldenburg and Mainz, the Theater Bremen, the Bühnen Halle, the Theater Magdeburg, the Opéra de Reims and the Kurt Weill Fest in Dessau.
After training as an actress, she completed her vocal studies in 2009 with an opera diploma. During this time, she was a student in the Young Ensemble of the Mainz State Theater for six years and sang in several productions for children at the Frankfurt Opera. One of her most important world premieres in the field of new music was the opera “22,13” by Marc André. This took her to the Munich Biennale and the Festival d ́Automne Paris at the Opéra National.
Jasmin Etezadzadeh has been using the stage name Jasmin Jorias since March 2025.
Vita
Engagements have taken her to the Komische Oper Berlin, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Bühnen Wuppertal, the Volkstheater Rostock, the Staatstheaters in Schwerin, Oldenburg and Mainz, the Theater Bremen, the Bühnen Halle, the Theater Magdeburg, the Opéra de Reims and the Kurt Weill Fest in Dessau.
After training as an actor, she completed her vocal studies in 2009 with a diploma in opera. During this time she was a student in the Young Ensemble of the Staatstheater Mainz for six years and sang in several productions for children at the Frankfurt Opera.
One of her most important premieres in the field of new music was the opera “22,13” by Marc André. This took her to the Munich Biennale as well as to the Festival d ́Automne Paris at the Opéra National.
Jasmin Jorias extensive opera and concert activities are complemented by collaborations with renowned conductors and directors such as Frank Ollu, David Parry, Ari Rasileinen, Felice Venanzoni, Constantinos Carydis as well as Phillipp Stölzl, Tobias Kratzer, Herbert Fritsch, Lydia Steier, Peer Boysen, George Delnon, Gottfried Pilz, Anouk Nicklisch and Katharina Thoma.
Repertoire
Repertoire Partien Oper:
Strauss
- Herodias Salome
Wagner
- Waltraute Walküren
- Waltraute Götterdämmerung
- Fricka Rheingold
- Fricka Walküren
- Norn 2 Götterdämmerung
Nono
- la donna Intolleranza
Dallapiccola
- la madre Il prigioniero
Korngold
- Brigitta Tote Stadt
Bizet
- Carmen Carmen
Humperdinck
- Hexe Hänsel und Gretel
Bernstein
- Old Lady Candide
Weill
- Leokadja Begbick Aufstieg und Fall…Mahagonny
Britten
- Auntie Peter Grimes
- Florence Pike Albert Herring
- Lucretia Lucretia
Janacek
- Kabanicha (d) Katja Kabanova
Puccini
- Zita Gianni Schicchi
Verdi
- Miss Quickly Falstaff
Schostakowitsch
- Podtoschina Nase
- Ossipowna
- Brezelverkäuferin
Dates
Vorstellungen 2025/26
9./11.6.2025 Jubiläumskonzert Mahlers 3. Sinfonie
Sinfonieorchester Basel
Leitung: Markus Poschner
Alt: Jasmin Jorias
Chor: Basler Gesangverein
Zauberflöte
Theater Basel
Musikalische Leitung: Jörg Halunke, Thomas Wise
Inszenierung: Simon Mc Burney / Szenische Einstudierung: Rachael Hewer
30.11./ 2./6./14./21./26./30.12.25
3.01/ 17.02/ 20.02/ 7./11./15.0326
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Theater Basel
Regie: Benedikt von Peter / ML: Stefan Klingele
20./ 21. /28. /31..8.2025
7. /8./10./12./14./20./21./28.9.25
4./12./18./26.10.25
Mahlers 8. Sinfonie Kopenhagen
Kopenhagen ML: Fabio Luisi
Radio Sinfonie Orchester Kopenhagen, DR Konzert Chor, BBC singers.
Camilla Nylund, Valentina Farcas, Liv Redpath, Wiebke Lehmkuhl,David Butt Philip, Christoph Pohl, David Steffens.
30.10.2025, 31.10.2025
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