Janine Kitzen

{{Short description|Dutch singer}}

{{BLP sources|date=November 2013}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| image = Janine Kitzen (2013).png

| caption = Kitzen, December 2013

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|3|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kerkrade, Netherlands

| genre = Opera, operatic pop, musical theatre

| occupation = soprano singer

| years_active = 1996–present

| website = [http://www.janine-kitzen.com/ janine-kitzen.com]

}}

Janine Kitzen (born 1 March 1978 in Kerkrade, The Netherlands)[http://anduin.kgv.nl/wiki/index.php/Kitzen,_Janine "Kitzen, Janine"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203004522/http://anduin.kgv.nl/wiki/index.php/Kitzen,_Janine |date=2013-12-03 }}, biography, Kerkrade, Gisteren en Vandaag (KGV) {{in lang|nl}} is a soprano singer in opera and musical theatre. Although she was born in a family with no real musical background, Kitzen knew from an early age she wanted to build a career in singing. At the age of ten, she sang her first public solo guided by André Rieu.[http://janine-kitzen.com/v3/index/pers/pr_nl_12.htm Reijnaerts, Ton, De charme van Janine Kitzen] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202235653/http://janine-kitzen.com/v3/index/pers/pr_nl_12.htm |date=2013-12-02 }}, Zondagkrant Parkstad Limburg 25 September 2004 {{in lang|nl}}

Kitzen studied solo singing at the Maastricht Academy of Music. After finishing this study successfully in 2001, she continued with a one-year program of musical theatre at the Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Tilburg. During her study, the soprano performed in leading roles in operas, operettas and musicals. For example, she played Bastienne in Mozart's opera Bastien und Bastienne.{{Cite web |url=http://www.janine-kitzen.com/v3/index/ |title=Official website Janine Kitzen |access-date=2013-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909192106/http://janine-kitzen.com/v3/index/ |archive-date=2013-09-09 |url-status=dead }} In 1998 she won the first prize at the television contest {{Interlanguage link multi|Una Voce Particolare|nl}}.[http://www.last.fm/music/Janine+Kitzen Janine Kitzen], profile at last.fm

After her studies, Kitzen continued performing and played in numerous productions including her role as leading character Christine in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera[http://www.musical-cast.de/presse/artikel/2002/phantom_021220.html "Eine Holländerin spielt die Christine Daaé im Phantom der Oper"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610211719/http://www.musical-cast.de/presse/artikel/2002/phantom_021220.html |date=2015-06-10 }} by Jürgen Brand, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 20 December 2002 {{in lang|de}} and, more recently, during the 2010 Monschau Klassik festival as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni.[http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/eifel/monschau-klassik-fuer-janine-kitzen-wird-ein-traum-war-1.349078 "Monschau-Klassik: Für Janine Kitzen wird ein Traum war"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005139/http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/eifel/monschau-klassik-fuer-janine-kitzen-wird-ein-traum-war-1.349078 |date=2013-12-03 }} by P. St, Aachener Zeitung, 27 April 2010 {{in lang|de}}