Handel’s Messiah

Alto soloist

Handel’s Messiah

Alto soloist

Duo Recital

with baritone Ryan Wolfe

AT A GLANCE

A native of Duluth, Minnesota, mezzo-soprano Georgia Jacobson’s recent engagements included debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kentucky Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, as well as returns to the Aspen Music Festival, Lyric Opera of the North, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra and the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra. Her recent engagements include Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream  and Carmen (Sioux City Symphony Orchestra), Hildegard (Aspen Music Festival), Siddhartha, She (Aspen Music Festival), and A Little Night Music (Lyric Opera of the North). She will make several debuts in the 2026/2027 season, as the alto soloist in Handel's Messiah with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra as well as with Borealis Chamber Artists. Equally at home with art song, Jacobson returned home to Minnesota to premiere two song cycles, both commissioned for her by The Schubert Club in March of 2025. She will present a duo recital with her husband, baritone Ryan Wolfe as part of Matinee Musicale's 2027 season. She has recently performed in recital at Source Song Festival, Sacred Heart Music Center, and the Aspen Music Festival. In previous seasons, she has been an Apprentice Artist at Des Moines Metro Opera, Sandford Studio Artist at Kentucky Opera, and Chrisman Studio Artist at Opera Santa Barbara. Her recent roles include Mercedes (Carmen), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Maggie (The Gift of the Magi), Hannah After (As One), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Lucilla (cover, La scala di seta), Margaret Johnson/Signora Naccarelli (The Light in the Piazza) and Waltraute (Die Walküre). In previous seasons, she has covered the role of Virginia Woolf in the world premiere/concert version of The Hours by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Gregory Pierce at the The Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as the roles of Hermia in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Mary Johnson in Fellow Travelers as an Apprentice Artist at Des Moines Metro Opera.

PRESS

Georgia Jacobson as the haughty matriarch … [was] a joy to behold.
— The Montecito Journal
As the love sick page Cherubino (a “pants” role), Georgia Jacobson delivered a performance that was skillful and humorous.
— The Cincinnati Business Courier
…and the mother given dramatic heft by Georgia Jacobson
— The Santa Barbara Independent