Jeannette Zarou

Jeannette Zarou (; born 1942, Ramallah) is a Palestinian-born Canadian soprano. She was a lyric soprano with the Canadian Opera Company and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and has worked as an academic voice teacher at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.

Career Zarou moved to Corner Brook, Newfoundland, in 1947, In 1964, she debuted at the Canadian Opera Company (COC) as a priestess in Verdi's Aida. In 1964, she sang the title role in the premiere of Healey Willan's opera Deirdre by the University's Opera Division. A review noted: quote|Jeannette Zarou, truly sympathetic in the title role, possessed a mellow lyric soprano voice that led to a distinguished career in Germany over the next thirty years.

Zarou was also active as a concert singer. She sang the soprano solo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Bach-Chor Bonn in 1977.

Zarou has been a professor of voice at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.