Lyric soprano Jacqueline Echols has been praised for her “dynamic range and vocal acrobatics” (Classical Voice) in theaters across the United States. In the 2025-26 season, highlights include performances with the Anna H. Wang concert series and her debut with Virginia Opera as Mary Jane Bowser in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Intelligence.
In the 2024–25 season, she created the role of Rosa Parks in the world premiere of She Who Dared at Chicago Opera Theater and reprised the role of Julie in Rhiannon Giddens’s Omar with the Quad City Symphony. Recent highlights include Juliette in Roméo et Juliette with Arizona Opera, Mary Dee in the Liverpool Oratorio with Cincinnati Opera, and her return to LA Opera as Julie in Omar. She also sang Juliette with Opera San Antonio and reprised the role of Musetta in La bohème at Washington National Opera, marking her return to the Kennedy Center.
Echols was featured at the Metropolitan Opera as Clara in Porgy and Bess, Noémie in Cendrillon, Poussette in Manon, and Musetta in La bohème. At Washington National Opera, she has sung Violetta in La traviata, Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking, Micaëla in Carmen, and Woglinde/Forest Bird in Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Additional credits include Clara in Porgy and Bess with The Atlanta Opera, Violetta in La traviata with Palm Beach Opera, and Helen in the world premiere of The Summer King at Pittsburgh Opera and its Detroit revival with Michigan Opera Theatre. She has also sung Pip in Moby-Dick with Los Angeles, Dallas, and Pittsburgh Operas.
Echols holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).