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Italian-American soprano Marina Costa Jackson is thrilling audiences throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. Recent engagements for Marina include her debut as _Tosca_ with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Mimi with Los Angeles Opera, Tatyana _in Eugene Onegin_ with Seattle Opera, and concerts with Seattle Opera and with CulturArte de Puerto Rico. Future engagements include Giulietta in _Les Contes d’Hoffmann_ with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the title role in _Suor Angelica_ and Lauretta in _Gianni Schicchi_ with San Diego Opera, and her debut as Puccini’s _Manon Lescaut_ for North Carolina Opera. Engagements canceled due to COVID-19 included Nedda in _I Pagliacci_ with Michigan Opera Theatre, Mimi in _La Boheme_ for Opéra national de Paris, and Amelia in _Simon Boccanegra_ with the Washington Concert Opera.

Recent performances include Elisabetta in Verdi’s _Don Carlo_ with Grange Park Opera, Desdemona in Verdi’s _Otello_ with the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Bolshoi Opera, and Austin Lyric Opera, Violetta in Verdi’s _La Traviata_ with Teatro San Carlos Lisbon, and Oper Köln, Maria in Donizetti’s _Maria di Rohan_with the Washington Concert Opera, Mimi for Oper Köln, Fiordiligi in _Cosi fan tutte_ for Seattle Opera, Leonora in _Il Trovatore_ for Musica Viva Hong Kong, Micaela in Bizet’s _Carmen_ for Opéra national de Paris, the Verdi Requiem for Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Adalgisa in Belini’s _Norma_ for Dallas Opera for which she was awarded the _2017 Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year._ She made her Royal Concertgebuow debut as Juliette in _A Village Romeo and Juiette,_ conducted by Mark Elder.

Ms. Costa Jackson has performed in concert with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Andrea Bocelli, and debuted as one of the Costa-Jackson Sisters Trio in the International Festival “Palaces of St. Petersburg”.

Marina is a 2015 Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards finalist, and has won top awards from the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Vocal Competition, and the Opera Index Vocal Competition. In 2016 she was a second-place winner of Operalia and recipient of the Zarzuela Award. Notable awards include the Marcello Giordani Foundation Vocal Competition, the Belvedere Competition, the Mario Lanza Institute, and the George London Foundation. She is a 2016 graduate of the famed Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.