More About Jaclyn

Hailed as an “exciting dramatic soprano” (Opera Canada) with a “command over a powerful range of expressive emotion” (The Whole Note), Jaclyn Grossman is a soprano, curator, producer, and arts administrator from Toronto, Canada. Recent highlights include Brünnhilde in Die Walküre and Siegfried, and Freia in Das Rheingold with Edmonton Opera; Nedda in Pagliacci and Nella in Gianni Schicchi with Opera Kelowna; and soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Buffalo Philharmonic under JoAnn Falletta. She recently completed residencies with Pacific Opera Victoria, Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music, and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme.

A proud co-founder of Likht Ensemble, Jaclyn is passionate about championing Jewish music and exploring the intersection of Germanic repertoire, Jewish identity, and voices silenced during the Holocaust. Likht’s ongoing Shoah Songbook recital series has recently been presented at Ehrbar Saal in Vienna, the Münchner Kammerspiele, Salle Bourgie in Montréal, the Canadian Opera Company’s Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Pacific Opera Victoria, and with the Chattanooga Symphony and Public Libraries. She has also performed the title role in Bas Sheve, a Yiddish opera by Henech Kon, and covered Judith in Against the Grain Theatre’s Bluebeard’s Castle.

Past performances include Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites with Opera McGill, as well as excerpts of Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Strauss’s Four Last Songs with the Sewanee Music Festival.

Alongside her performance career, Jaclyn is committed to fostering community and empowering artists. She is the Founder of The Phoenix Leadership Project, creator and facilitator of the Association for Opera in Canada’s RBC Artist Fellowship/Mentorship, and Programs Manager for Opera 5’s Portfolio Artist Internship Program.

She is a recipient of the Wagner Society of New York Bayreuth Stipendium, Olga Forrai Singers Grant, Sylva Gelber Foundation Award, Career Blueprint Award from the International Resource Centre for Performing Artists, and Ben Steinberg Musical Legacy Award. She is an alumna of the Opera America Leadership Intensive, Opera Europa Management Course, and McGill University’s Schulich School of Music.

“In the final scene, we hear Jaclyn Grossman as Brünnhilde, reprising her role from Die Walküre. She made the most of her small contribution, elevating the tone of the evening to truly operatic heights. The audience was roused to vigorous applause at the end, I think partly by what Grossman brought to the production." (Opera Canada)