Soprano Jacqueline Pimienta is a favorite with audiences in South Florida, where she is frequently heard in opera, operetta, musical theater, and a variety of concert appearances. Most recently, she sang the roles of Marietta in Naughty Marietta this 2009-10 season and Mascha in The Chocolate Soldier in the 2008-09 season for Palm Beach Light Opera and was one of the featured soloists in KP Productions’ annual Night of a 100 Stars concerts, singing opera and musical theater these last two seasons. Ms. Pimienta was a featured soloist in an experimental show called Opera Mash Up last summer where her operatic voice was mixed with different genres in a live setting. She was the guest artist in baritone-tenor, David Meulemans’ From Classics to Broadway concert, as well as singing the roles of Yum-Yum in The Mikado with The Choral Society of the Palm Beaches and Lucy in The Telephone for The Piccolo Opera Company. Also in her repertoire are the roles of Clotilde which she sang for The South Florida Opera Company’s production of Norma, Josephine in HMS Pinafore with The Choral Society of the Palm Beaches and prior to these appearances, she was heard in the roles of Frasquita in Carmen with The South Florida Opera Company and her first appearances as Lucy in The Telephone with The Piccolo Opera Company in Boca Raton. She was also featured singing Mozart’s Alleluja with orchestra in the pilot of American Ideal, a public television program.

Ms. Pimienta has appeared in many venues around the state, including a concert of Gilbert and Sullivan excerpts with South Florida Light Opera; Ellen in the musical comedy What About Luv? with the Royal Playhouse; as a recitalist for the Boca Delray Music Society as well as the Norton Museum of Art, which featured her highly successful program of 19^th Century French vocal music, Impressions and Romance.. She appeared in the role of Miss Rose in Amici dell’Arte’s well-received concert production of Lakmé in Miami and has also performed excerpts from Le nozze di Figaro, The Ballad of Baby Doe, and Hansel and Gretel as a member of Washington, DC’s Crittenden Opera Studio.