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Mezzo-soprano Cabiria Jacobsen was recently praised as “A revelation” by the Broome Arts Mirror, and as “one to watch as her career ascends,” for her performance in the role of Dorabella/Cosi fan tutte at Tri-Cities Opera.  A finalist in the 2012 Liederkranz Competition, Cabiria won the Ilene D. Kaplan award in the Connecticut Opera Guild's annual scholarship competition, and was an Encouragement Grant winner in the Career Bridges Foundation Competition in 2011. This past summer, Cabiria sang the role of Cherubino/Le nozze di Figaro at Opera North, where the Classical Voice of New England called her performance "exquisite," and "intoxicatingly understated, yet believably endearing."  

Cabiria will join Virginia Opera as an Emerging Artist for their 2012 - 2013 season.  Currently a Resident Artist at Tri-Cities Opera, she has performed the roles of Nicklausse/Les contes d'Hoffman and Cherubino/Le nozze di Figaro on the mainstage, as well as Hansel/Hansel and Gretel; La Ciesca/Gianni Schicchi; and Mom and Grandma/Little Red Riding Hood in their chamber opera and outreach series.  In the summer of 2010, Cabiria covered the role of Siebel/Faust at Opera New Jersey, under the direction of Mark Flint. 

A proud native of Brooklyn, NY, Cabiria began singing at a young age with the New York City Opera Children’s Chorus, and attended the Boston University Tanglewood Institute the summer before her senior year at the Bronx High School of Science.  At Northwestern University, Cabiria continued to pursue both opera and theater, graduating in 2006 with bachelor's degrees in Voice as well as Drama.  She subsequently moved to Boston, where she performed with the Lowell House Opera and OperaHub, a company she co-founded in 2007.  The South End News described her performance of Carmen’s arias at a fundraiser for OperaHub as “fascinating and coquettish.” Cabiria joined the Resident Artist Training Program at Tri-Cities Opera in 2009, and entered the University program with a full scholarship and teaching assistantship at Binghamton University that January. She graduated in June 2011 with an MM in Opera, and returned to the University as a soloist in their November 2011 performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah.