Jacquelyn Stucker VAP ’13 Interviewed in Opera Wire
Jacquelyn Stucker ’13. Photo by Alfredo Llorens
Bard alumna Jacquelyn Stucker VAP ’13 was interviewed by Opera Wire in advance of her performance in We Are the Lucky Ones at Amsterdam’s Opera Forward Festival. Opera Forward is a showcase of new performances and student production labs that is in its ninth year, and this year’s theme is looking to the past while “search[ing] for a way forward in an era of polarization, crisis, and conflict.” We Are the Lucky Ones is based on interviews with 70 people born in Western Europe in the 1940s, raising questions about “the relationship between the private and the political, the impact of our choices and what truly matters.”
Stucker spoke with Opera Wire about her career in performance and how she became enamored with opera starting at age 20. She credits soprano Dawn Upshaw, the founder of the Bard Conservatory Vocal Arts Program, as the biggest influence on her career: “She taught me how to think about music from a composer’s or an instrumentalist’s point of view in a completely different way.” She also spoke about some of her favorite art outside of opera, including Radiohead’s “In Rainbows,” Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and the paintings of Egon Schiele.
Post Date: 01-27-2025
Stucker spoke with Opera Wire about her career in performance and how she became enamored with opera starting at age 20. She credits soprano Dawn Upshaw, the founder of the Bard Conservatory Vocal Arts Program, as the biggest influence on her career: “She taught me how to think about music from a composer’s or an instrumentalist’s point of view in a completely different way.” She also spoke about some of her favorite art outside of opera, including Radiohead’s “In Rainbows,” Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and the paintings of Egon Schiele.
Post Date: 01-27-2025