JORDAN KNAPICK is a soprano from Rockford, IL, who is currently based in Seattle, WA. She received her MM from Boston University and her BM from Oklahoma City University, where she studied voice under Lynn Eustis and Jeffrey Picón, respectively. This fall, Jordan will sing Almirena in Händel’s Rinaldo with Pacific Northwest Opera, as well as the soprano solo in Fauré’s Requirm at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, Seattle. Continuing to expand her work in the Pacific Northwest, she will also sing Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance this coming spring as a part of the Seattle Opera School Opera Tour. A lover of crossover work, Jordan spent the past two summers as a Resident Young Artist at Ohio Light Opera, where she has sung Patience in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Patience, Carrie in R&H’s Carousel, Juliette in Lehár’s The Count of Luxembourh, and Elsa Schraeder in R&H’s The Sound of Music. This past spring, she had the pleasure of singing Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with Northwest Opera in Schools, Etc. and covering the 1st Woodsprite in Rusalka with PNO. Other notable credits include Noémie in Cendrillon, Soprano I in Hydrogen Jukebox, Oberto in Alcina, Lisette in La Rondine, Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music, and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte.