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Jacqueline Noparstak Soprano

American soprano Jacqueline Noparstak, praised for her soft, warm, flexible high

notes and superb phrasing, is becoming recognized as one of the most promising

young sopranos of her generation.

In the 2011/12 season, Ms. Noparstak will be performing Countess Almaviva in Le

Nozze di Figaro with St. Petersburg Opera (FL). In the previous season she made

her European debut covering the title role in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah with Opera

Bilbao in Spain and was featured as the soprano soloist with the Rochester Oratorio

Society, where she is returning again this year.

In 2009/10, Ms. Noparstak portrayed the title role in Massenet’s Manon with Opera

in the Heights, the Foreign Woman in Menotti’s The Consul at Glimmerglass

Opera, and Micaëla in Carmen at Natchez Opera Festival. She was also scheduled

to sing the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte with the Baltimore Opera. In concert work,

she was engaged as the soprano soloist in Händel's Messiah with the Rochester

Chamber Orchestra and with Steven Blier in the Latin Lover’s Concert at

Glimmerglass Opera. In 2008, Jacqueline Noparstak sang Fiordiligi in Così fan

tutte with O.S.H. Opera and Hanna Glawari in Liederkranz Opera’s production of

The Merry Widow.

Ms. Noparstak’s other operatic highlights include: the Countess in Le Nozze di

Figaro with Opera in the Heights and Union Avenue Opera, Pamina in Die

Zauberflöte and Arminda in La Finta Giardiniera. She has performed the title roles

in Floyd’s Susannah and Strauss’ Arabella, Magda in Puccini’s La Rondine, Héro in

Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict, and Giannetta in L’Elisir d’Amore for both Brooklyn

Opera and Pine Mountain Music Festival.

A native of Eugene, Oregon, Jacqueline Noparstak has been a winner of numerous

competitions and awards including: the Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition, the

Marie E. Crump Vocal Arts Competition, the Lois Alba Competition and the

Marcella Sembrich Competition-Kosciuszko Foundation. Moreover, she has received

awards and honors from the Liederkranz Foundation Competition, National Opera

Association, Opera Index, the Gulio Gari Competition, the Violetta Du Pont

Competition, the Long Leaf Opera Competition. In 2005, Ms. Noparstak was the

Grand Prize Winner of the prestigious AIMS 25th Annual Meistersinger

Competition in Graz, Austria.

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Jacqueline Noparstak Soprano

Opera Countess Le Nozze di Figaro St. Petersburg Opera (FL) 2012

Susannah (c) Susannah Opera Bilbao, Spain 2010

Manon Manon Opera in the Heights 2009

Louisa Feast in Time of a Plague Little Opera Theater of New York 2009

Foreign Woman The Consul Glimmerglass Opera 2009

Micaëla Carmen Natchez Opera Festival 2009

Fiordiligi Così fan tutte O.S.H Opera 2008

Hanna Glawarî Die lustige Witwe Liederkranz Opera 2008

Countess Le Nozze di Figaro Opera in the Heights 2007

Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte Union Avenue Opera 2007

Pamina Die Zauberflöte New York Opera Forum 2006

Countess Le Nozze di Figaro Union Avenue Opera 2006

Arminda La Finta Giardiniera Little Opera Theatre of New York 2006

Giannetta L’Elisir d’Amore Brooklyn Opera 2006

Giannetta L’Elisir d’Amore Pine Mountain Music Festival 2003

Concert & Oratorio Soprano Soloist Rochester Oratorio Society 2011/12

Soloist Benefit Concert Spirit of Hope Foundation 2011

Händel The Messiah Rochester Chamber Orchestra 2009

Solo Recital Freeport Concert Association 2009

Latin Lovers w/ Steven Blier Glimmerglass Opera 2009

Soloist Awards Concert Council for Polish Culture, Hartford, CT 2009

Mozart Mass in C minor Delaware Valley Chorale 2009

Solo Recital Freeport Memorial Library 2008

Marcella Sembrich Opera Showstoppers Glens Falls, New York 2008

Solo Recital Kosciuszko Foundation, Philadelphia, PA 2008

Young Artist Programs Young American Artists Program Glimmerglass Opera 2009

AIMS Graz, Austria 2005

Natchez Festival of Music Natchez, Mississippi 2005

Pine Mountain Music Festival Hancock, Michigan 2003

Awards & Grants Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition Encouragement Award 2010, 2011

Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Competition Finalist 2011

Gulio Gari Competition Finalist 2010

Rochester Oratorio Society’s Classical Idol Competition First Prize 2009

Marcella Sembrich Competition-American Council for Polish Culture First Prize 2009

Violetta Du Pont Competition Second Prize 2009

Lois Alba Competition First Prize 2008

Marcella Sembrich Competition-Kosciuszko Foundation First Prize 2008

Marie E. Crump Vocal Arts Competition First Prize 2008

Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition Winner 2008

Liederkranz Opera Competition Winner 2007

AIMS 25th Meistersinger Competition Graz, Austria Grand Prize Winner 2005

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Opera Repertoire

Bizet

Micaëla ……......................……. Carmen

Britten

Ellen Orford …..……..…… Peter Grimes

Dvo ák Rusalka ….........................……. Rusalka

Händel

Cleopatra …..….........…… Giulio Cesare

Rodelinda …..…............…….. Rodelinda

Lehár

Hanna Glawari .......... The Merry Widow

Massenet

Manon ……...........................…… Manon

Thaïs …..…...........................…….. Thaïs

Mozart

Fiordiligi ……....…...……. Così fan tutte

Donna Anna …………….. Don Giovanni

Countess ……...…… Le Nozze di Figaro

Pamina ……...…………. Die Zauberflöte

Offenbach

Antonia …….…. Les Contes d’Hoffmann

Puccini

Lauretta …….…...……. Gianni Schicchi

Liù ………….....................….… Turandot

Musetta …….…….........….… La Bohème

Mimì …….............……..….… La Bohème

J. Strauss

Rosalinde ...................... Die Fledermaus

R. Strauss

Arabella ..................................... Arabella

Countess .................................. Capriccio

Daphne ....................................... Daphne

Sophie/Marschallin .... Der Rosenkavalier

Stravinsky

Anne Trulove ….....…. The Rake’s Progress

Verdi

Alice Ford ………..………………. Falstaff

Violetta …………..………..... La Traviata

Desdemona ….……..……...……..... Otello

Concert Repertoire

Bach ………………….…......... Magnificat

Beethoven ………..….……..9th Symphony

Brahms …………….……………. Requiem

Fauré……………………….....…. Requiem

Händel ………………..……......... Messiah

Mendelssohn ………...……....……. Elijah

Mozart ………....…………. C minor mass

Orff …………….…….... Carmina Burana

Strauss …….……..…… Vier letzte Lieder

Villa-Lobos …...… Bachianas Brasileiras

* This list represents recommended roles in the artist's operatic repertoire. For a list of performed repertoire, please refer to

the artist's resume and biography.

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Reviews “Jacqueline Noparstak rightly earned the grand prize with her singing. She sang

with soft, warm, and flexible high notes, and her phrasing was superb.”

Walther Neumann, KLEINE ZEITUNG

“The current production succeeds chiefly on the merits of Jacqueline Noparstak’s

vibrantly sung and dramatically persuasive Manon. Noparstak presents a

convincing and sympathetic Manon: vivacious, capricious, wildly contradictory,

dangerously impulsive.”

Everett Evans, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 2009

“Fortunately, her interpreter is the beguiling soprano Jacqueline Noparstak who

tosses off Manon's gay coloratura with brightness and dexterity.”

D. L. Groover, HOUSTON PRESS, 2009

“Baritone David Kravitz (Mr. Kofner), soprano Jacqueline Noparstak (Foreign

Woman) and mezzo Eve Gigliotti (Vera Boronel) were standouts as visa seekers.”

Heidi Waleson, WALL STREET JOURNAL, 2009

“To Angus and Helfrich’s credit, all the smaller parts told, with Jacqueline

Noparstak (Foreign Woman) and Eve Gigliotti (Vera Boronel) showing particularly

noteworthy timbres.”

David Shengold, THE BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER, 2009

“The vocal highlight in this three-hour production is soprano Jacqueline

Noparstak’s ‘Dove sono’.”

Sheila Schultz, KDHX THEATRE REVIEW, 2007