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 been seen as a guest artist 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.

In the 2026-2027 season Jacqueline will perform with the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra singing as a featured soloist in Handel’s Messiah. Earlier in 2026, Jacqueline debuted two recitals with the St. Meinrad Concert Series, at the St. Meinrad Archabbey.

Jacqueline has performed the roles of 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, and Laura in Luisa Miller. 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, and Kayla in Taking up Serpents.

In recent seasons, Jacqueline appeared as a soloist with Portland Opera for their Puccini: In Concert debuting scenes from Madama Butterfly, La Rondine, Turandot, & more. She returned to the Seattle Opera (where she made her house debut of Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte) as 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. Jacqueline also performed as a soloist with Hawai’i Opera Theatre 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.

In concert, Jacqueline has performed the Israelitish Woman in Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus with the North Shore Choral Society, joined the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra as the soloist in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and made her debut with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

In the 2019-2020 season, Jacqueline was to take part in 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, but the engagement was cancelled due to the pandemic. Jacqueline was also invited to perform Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge with the University of California-Davis Symphony Orchestra at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

A participant in the Merola Opera Program, Jacqueline sang Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and Arminda in La finta giardiniera. She was honored thereafter as a San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow between 2013-2016. She was also 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.

Jacqueline 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, Jacqueline 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.