Jaclyn Grossman

Jaclyn Grossman has been hailed as an “exciting dramatic soprano” with a “command over a powerful range of expressive emotion” (Opera Canada, The Whole Note). In the 2024/25 season, she made her role debut as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre and will continue her journey with the Ring Cycle, returning as Brünnhilde in Siegfried later this season.

Her recent engagements include 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 also appeared in concert with Festival of the Sound and the Collingwood Music Festival.

Other notable operatic credits include Gertrud in Hansel and Gretel with Good Mess Opera Theatre and the title role in Henech Kon’s Bas-Sheve—a Yiddish opera presented in its North American premiere with the Ashkenaz Festival, the Milken Center, UCLA, and Yiddish Summer Weimar. As a fellow at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, she performed excerpts as Krystyna in Two Remain, Helmwige in Die Walküre, the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, Anne in Singing Only Softly, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. She has also completed residencies with Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme.

A co-founder of the Likht Ensemble and a Jewish dramatic soprano, Ms. Grossman is deeply committed to presenting works by Jewish composers silenced during the Holocaust and exploring their resonance within the Germanic repertoire. In 2025/26, she continues the ensemble’s acclaimed Shoah Songbook recital series, with performances at Montreal’s Salle Bourgie, ausArten & the Munich Jewish Museum, ExilArte Zentrum in Vienna, The Holocaust Museum, and Toronto’s Leah Posluns Theatre. Past performances have included the Chattanooga Symphony, the Chattanooga Public Libraries, the Canadian Opera Company, and McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. Ms. Grossman will continue to present this repertoire in Salam-Shalom: Echoes of Home, a concert with City Opera Vancouver.

Ms. Grossman is a recipient of the Olga Forrai Foundation Scholarship, the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award, the Career Blueprint Award from the International Resource Centre for Performing Artists, and the Ben Steinberg Musical Legacy Award from Temple Sinai. She has also received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. A graduate of McGill University, she holds both a Master of Music and a Graduate Diploma in Opera and Voice.