Biography

Mezzo soprano Georgia Jacobson, a native of Duluth, Minnesota, has recently appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Lakes Area Music Festival, Kentucky Opera, and Opera Santa Barbara. Recent and upcoming engagements include Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Hildegard and Christopher Theofandis’s Siddhartha, She at the Aspen Music Festival, Carmen and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, A Little Night Music with Lyric Opera of the North, Handel’s Messiah with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Borealis Chamber Artists, and a duo recital with her husband, baritone Ryan Wolfe, at Matinee Musicale and The Schubert Club. An alumna of the apprentice programs at Des Moines Metro Opera, Kentucky Opera, and Opera Santa Barbara, Ms. Jacobson has received multiple awards from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and was a first prize winner of the National Opera Association competition. Recent roles include Margravine von Stade/Angel 2/Clementia (Hildegard), Mercédès (Carmen), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Maggie (The Gift of the Magi), Hannah After (As One), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Lucilla (cover, La scala di seta), Margaret Johnson/Signora Naccarelli (The Light in the Piazza) and Waltraute (Die Walküre). In previous seasons, she has covered the role of Virginia Woolf in the world premiere/concert version of The Hours by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Gregory Pierce at the The Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as the roles of Hermia in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Mary Johnson in Fellow Travelers at Des Moines Metro Opera. Born in Nice, Jacobson has a special affinity for French repertoire, and she was proud to make her professional debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in their production of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges as Maman/Tasse/La libellule under the baton of Maestro Louis Langrée. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Voice Performance from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and Master’s of Music and Artist Diploma from University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music.