About Jacqueline Kaskel...

Jacqueline Kaskel, age twenty-two, is a soprano and recent graduate of Yale College. While serving as the Assistant Managing Director of the Opera Theatre of Yale College, she performed leading roles such as Cendrillon in Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon, Sāvitri in Gustav Holst’s Sāvitri, Venus in John Eccles’ The Judgment of Paris, and Nora in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea. She is an alumna of the Palm Beach Opera Studio, a highly selective high school vocal program in South Florida. Jacqueline has won first prize in both the 2020 Pathfinder High School Scholarship Award in the Music/Vocal category and the 2019 Robert Sharon Chorale Classical Voice Competition. She was also a finalist in both the 2020 Dreyfoos School of the Arts Concerto Competition and the 2019 Schmidt Vocal Competition at Palm Beach Atlantic University.

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Last month, Jacqueline attended the Herbert Frost School of Music Program at Salzburg. During the summer of 2021, Jacqueline attended the Vienna Summer Music Festival — relocated to St. Petersburg, Florida — where she sang the role of Virginia Woolf in Paul Richards’ The Loathly Lady and covered the role of Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. In previous years, Jacqueline also attended the Studio Artist Program at SongFest online as a Schubert Fellow, the Washington National Opera Institute at American University, and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee Vocal/Choral Intensive. Jacqueline, who has been singing since age seven, has fallen in love with every aspect of opera and will pursue a career in music.