Praised by the New York Times for her ‘plush-voiced, impressive soprano’, Sara Jakubiak has captivated audiences with her rich, versatile voice and committed performances. During the 2019 / 20 season, she made both her role and house debut at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden as Chrysothemis (Elektra). She also returned to Komische Oper Berlin for her first Dorota (Weinberger’s Schwanda the Bagpiper) and made her debut as Sieglinde (excerpts from Die Walküre) at the Verbier Festival. On the concert platform, she sang Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with the Münchner Philharmoniker and Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2018, she sang Heliane (Das Wunder der Heliane) at Deutsche Oper Berlin under Marc Albrecht. Recently she also sang Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) under Kirill Petrenko at Bayerische Staatsoper, Agathe (Der Freischütz) under Christian Thielemann at the Semperoper Dresden, and Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) and Marta (Weinberg’s The Passenger) at Oper Frankfurt. Other recent roles have included Marie (Wozzeck) at English National Opera, Polina (The Gambler) at De Nationale Opera, Marietta (Die tote Stadt) at Staatsoper Hamburg and Komische Oper Berlin, Elsa (Lohengrin) at Oper Graz and Theater Bonn, and Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta. As a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt between 2014 and 2018, she distinguished herself in a wide range of roles, including Prima Donna (Ariadne auf Naxos), Lina (Stiffelio), Maria (Krenek’s Der Diktator), Alice Ford (Falstaff), the Goose Girl (Königskinder), and Freia (Das Rheingold). In summer 2020 she will perform Elisabeth in a concert performance of Act III of Tannhäuser with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons. On DVD Sara Jakubiak can be seen in Der Freischütz and Das Wunder der Heliane and for Chandos has recorded Janác?ek’s Glagolitic Mass with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner.