Sara Jakubiak

Sara Jakubiak is an American soprano from Bay City, Michigan, who trained at Yale and the Cleveland Institute of Music. After making her name in Europe as Marie in Wozzeck at English National Opera and in the ensemble of Frankfurt Opera, she built an international career in a dramatic repertoire including Chrysothemis (Elektra), Ariadne, the title role of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane, and Tatyana (Eugene Onegin). Praised for the warm, beautiful colour of her dramatic soprano, she brings warmth and dramatic intensity to the great Strauss and Wagner roles.