Jazmine Saunders is a soprano from Rochester, New York currently in her second year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera. During the Met’s 2025-26 season, she will debut the role of Clara in Porgy and Bess, and cover Lisa in La Sonnambula. During the Met’s 2024–25 season, she made her company debut as Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, covered Pip in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick, and covered two of the voices of the Unborn Children in Die Frau ohne Schatten. Other operatic engagements include her role debut as Gilda in Rigoletto with Finger Lakes Opera, covering the role of Claire Devon in the United States premiere of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s The Listeners at Opera Philadelphia, originating the role of Shannon in the world premiere of Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s The Righteous at Santa Fe Opera, and covering Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at Wolf Trap Opera. On the concert stage, she has appeared as the soprano soloist in Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D with the Cathedral Choral Society and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore and Bach’s Magnificat with The New Choral Society, and Mozart’s Requiem with Glens Falls Symphony. Additionally, Saunders was a participant in both Renée Fleming’s SongStudio, and Joyce DiDonato’s Master Class series at Carnegie Hall. Saunders holds degrees in voice from the Eastman School of Music, where she received the William Warfield Scholarship and graduated with Highest Distinction, and The Juilliard School, where she was a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship.