Jordan Knapick is an operatic soprano and musical theater singer, dancer, and actress currently based in Seattle, WA. A northern Illinois native, Jordan has been a performer from the time she could walk and talk. From a young age, she loved going to dance classes and voice lessons, and after performing as an orphan in a local youth theatre's production of Annie at age eleven, she caught the theatre bug.

 

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 Requiem 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 Luxembourg, and Elsa Schraeder in R&H’s The Sound of Music. Most notably, as Juliette, Jordan’s voice “radiated sunlight, graceful in every register, and physically she managed to convey her character’s dual assets of sweetness and tenacity” (Cleveland Classical). 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 Pacific Northwest Opera. Other notable credits include Noémie and Cendrillon 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.