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“Impeccable technique and stage presence ... an artist to watch. ”
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American soprano Jacqueline Piccolino has been hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as having "impeccable technique and stage presence" and as “an artist to watch." Jacqueline has performed with the San Francisco Opera, Portland Opera, Seattle Opera, Quad City Symphony Orchestra, Berkshire Opera Festival, Hawai’i Opera Theatre, Chicago Opera Theater, Wolf Trap Opera, Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, and in the St. Meinrad Concert Series.
Jacqueline has performed roles such as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Woglinde in Das Rheingold, Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Arminda in La finta giardiniera, Clotilde in Norma, Stella in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Lady Madeline in La chute de la Maison Usher, Laura in Luisa Miller, and more. She has also prepared & covered roles such as the title role of Rusalka, Mimì in La Bohème, the title role of Alcina, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Leonora in Il Trovatore, Roksana in Szymanowski’s King Roger, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, Kayla in Taking up Serpents, and more.
In the 2025-2026 season, Ms. Piccolino debuted two recitals with the St. Meinrad Concert Series, at the St. Meinrad Archabbey. Prior to that in 2024, Jacqueline performed with the Portland Opera for their Puccini: In Concert debuting scenes from Madama Butterfly, Rondine, Turandot, & more. In the 2023-2024 season, Jacqueline returned to the Seattle Opera (house debut of Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte in 2017) for Woglinde in Das Rheingold, performed arias & scenes from Alcina, Suor Angelica, Idomeneo, & Faust with the Berkshire Opera Festival, and covered the role of Lady Billows in Albert Herring with Chicago Opera Theater. Ms. Piccolino performed as a soloist with Hawai’i Opera Theatre in 2022 singing arias & scenes from Norma, Turandot, Rusalka, & Faust. Thereafter, she covered the role of Roksana in the Chicago premiere of Szymanowski’s King Roger with Chicago Opera Theater and sang as the Soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Quad City Symphony Orcestra.
In the 2019-2020 season, Ms. Piccolino was scheduled to join the prestigious Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program to sing Erste Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and to cover the title role in Dvořák’s Rusalka (cancelled due to COVID-19). In addition, Ms. Piccolino was invited to perform Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge with the University of California-Davis Symphony Orchestra at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Elsewhere Ms. Piccolino has performed the Israelitish Woman in Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus with the North Shore Choral Society in Evanston, Illinois and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte with Seattle Opera. She also sang Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra.
A participant in the Merola Opera Program, Ms. Piccolino appeared as Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and Arminda in La finta giardiniera. Honored thereafter as a San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow between 2013-2016, Ms. Piccolino made her professional debut in 2013 as Stella in Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Over the next two years, she sang First Lady in The Magic Flute, Lady Madeline in La chute de la maison Usher, Laura in Luisa Miller, 2nd Maid in the world premiere of Dolores Claiborne, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Clotilda in Norma, Mrs. Hayes in Susannah, and cover for Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. Other career highlights include appearing as a Studio Artist with the Wolf Trap Opera Company, a soloist in the Napa Festival del Sole’s Bouchaine Young Artist Concert Series, and participant in the Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Vocal Academy.
Ms. Piccolino was a National Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2021 as well as the First Prize Winner of the Partners for the Arts Inc. Competition. In 2020, she received the Eileen Deneen Award from the American Opera Society of Chicago and was also a Bursary Recipient by the Opera Awards Foundation. She also has earned a first prize from The American Prize in Vocal Performance, the Igor Gorin Memorial Award from the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona, and the prestigious Rose M. Grundman Award from the Musicians Club of Women in Chicago. In addition, Ms. Piccolino has received awards from the Sullivan, Shoshana, and George London Foundations, and she was a finalist in the 9th International Stanisław Moniuszko Competition in Warsaw. Jacqueline graduated with a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Music in 2013 and received the prestigious Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship from her alma mater.
Currently, she resides in the beautiful city of Chicago!
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Seattle Opera, Das Rheingold 2023