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JACQUELINE VENABLE SIMMONS, SOPRANO
PROFESSIONAL WORK
Desdemona Otello (Verdi) Winter Opera St. Louis 2015
Micaëla Carmen (Bizet) Atlanta Opera 2004
Pamina Die Zauberflöte(Mozart) Hawaii Opera Theatre 2003
The Bride Hlas Lesa (Martinů) Gotham Chamber Opera 2002
Suzel L’amico Fritz (Mascagni) Dicapo Opera 2002
Leonora Il Trovatore (Verdi) Dicapo Opera 2001
Giunone Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Monteverdi) New York City Opera 2001
Pamina Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) Opera Festival of New Jersey 2001
Zuma Alzira (Verdi) Sarasota Opera 2000
Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) Merola Opera Program 1998
ADDITIONAL ROLES PREPARED (*Performed)
*Mimì La Bohème (Puccini) Opera in the Ozarks
*Monica The Medium (Menotti) University of Kansas
*Dido Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) University of Kansas
*Mistress Ford Sir John in Love (Vaughan-Williams) University of Kansas
Marzelline Fidelio (Beethoven)
Musetta La Bohème (Puccini)
Liù Turandot (Puccini)
Ghita Der Zwerg (Zemlinksy)
ROLES IN PREPARATION
Margherita Mefistofele(Boito)
Wally La Wally (Catalani)
Rusalka Rusalka (DvoraK)
Susannah Susannah (Floyd)
Marguerite Faust(Gounod)
Salomé Hérodiade(Massenet)
Fiordiligi Così fan tutte(Mozart)
Manon Lescaut Manon Lescaut(Puccini)
Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier(Strauss)
TRAINING
 San Francisco Opera Center – Merola Program
 Western Opera Theatre Tour
 Sarasota Opera Studio Artist
 Voice teachers: Inci Bashar; Mary Schiller; Julia Broxholm
 Coaches: Yelena Kurdina; Natalia Rivera
 MasterClasses:ReginaResnik,Dame JoanSutherland,LiciaAlbanese,Carol Vaness,LotfiMansouri,WarrenJones,
John Wustman, Patrick Summers, Martin Isepp, Charlie Riecker, and John Norris.

2. JACQUELINE VENABLE SIMMONS, SOPRANO
AWARDS
 The Jenson Foundation – 2nd
, 2002
 Licia Albanese – 2nd
, 2002
 Loren L. Zachary – 2nd
, 2000
 Dicapo Opera – 1st
, 2000
 Gerda Lissner – Career Grant, 2002
 Liederkranz – 7th
, 2000
 Palm Beach Opera – 7th
/5th
, 1999/2000
 Helen Jepson Dellera Scholarship, 2000
 Metropolitan Opera National Council – Regional Finalist, 1995-1997
 Metropolitan Opera National Council –“ Most Promising Artist,” 1997
 The Richard F. Gold Career Grant (Merola), 1998
 The Merola Opera Career Study Grant, 1998