About Jacqueline Kaskel...

Jacqueline Kaskel, age twenty-four, is a soprano and recent graduate of Yale College. Since August 2025, she has worked as the Grants & Stewardship Manager at Palm Beach Opera. Prior to her current position, she worked as the Company Manager for the 2025 Season at Palm Beach Opera. She is also an alumna of the Palm Beach Opera's Studio Program, a highly selective high school vocal program in South Florida.

 

In 2024, Jacqueline attended the Herbert Frost School of Music Program at Salzburg, and in 2021, Jacqueline attended the Vienna Summer Music Festival where she sang the role of Virginia Woolf in Paul Richards’ The Loathly Lady and covered the role of Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. While serving as the Assistant Managing Director of the Opera Theatre of Yale College, she performed leading roles such as Cendrillon in Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon, Sāvitri in Gustav Holst’s Sāvitri, Venus in John Eccles’ The Judgment of Paris, and Nora in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea.

 

Jacqueline has won first prize in both the 2020 Pathfinder High School Scholarship Award in the Music/Vocal category and the 2019 Robert Sharon Chorale Classical Voice Competition. She was a finalist in both the 2020 Dreyfoos School of the Arts Concerto Competition and the 2019 Schmidt Vocal Competition at Palm Beach Atlantic University. In previous years, Jacqueline also attended the Studio Artist Program at SongFest online as a Schubert Fellow, the Washington National Opera Institute at American University, and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee Vocal/Choral Intensive.