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 the Natchez Opera Festival. She was also scheduled to sing the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte with the Baltimore Opera. In concert 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.
“Das war sehr gut, Mandryka” from Strauss’ Arabella (2011)
“Dove sono” from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (2011)
“Ain't it a pretty night?” from Floyd’s Susannah (2010)
“The trees on the mountain” from Floyd’s Susannah (2010)
Berlioz |
Mozart (continued) |
Bizet
Bach - Magnificat |
Mendelssohn - Elijah |
“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
