Sara Sara Jakubiak

Sara Jakubiak is renowned for her ability to bring complex characters to life, blending musical understanding with dramatic instincts. Her 2025–26 season is a season of firsts. She makes her La Scala debut in the opening-night production of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, sings her first Isolde with the London Symphony Orchestra, and opens the Norwegian National Opera season with her role debut as Rusalka.

Recent orchestral highlights include Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten’s War Requiem with the Dresden Philharmoniker, and Schoenberg’s Erwartung with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Jakubiak also has a significant discography, including the 2020 Opus Klassik Award–winning production of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane with Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Jakubiak hails from Bay City, Michigan and received her university training at Yale and the Cleveland Institute of Music