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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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Jacqueline Noparstak Soprano
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
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