American Mezzo-Soprano Jacalyn Kreitzer began her professional career when she stepped in for ailing soprano Felicity Lott to sing the orchestral transcription of Schoenberg’s difficult String Quartet  No. 2 in F-sharp minor with Simon Rattle and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Following excellent critical acclaim, she was then engaged with the Metropolitan Opera for four seasons, and recorded Die Walkure with the Met on Deutsche Grammaphon with James Levine conducting.

Kreitzer has performed with some of the world’s great opera houses and symphonies, including Deutsche Oper Berlin, Theatre du Chatelet, New York City Opera, Barcelona, Spoleto, Chicago Lyric and San Francisco operas, the Dublin Grand Opera, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Seattle Opera, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Prague National Symphony, and the Kronos, American, Mendelssohn and Sequoia string quartets.

Kreitzer has worked with conductors Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Loren Maazel, Leonid Grin, Hugh Wolff, Luciano Berio, Jeffrey Tate, Edo de Waart, Pierre Boulez, Jorge Mester, Ajmone-Marson, Bartoletti, Christopher Keene, Hermann Michael, Valery Gerghiev, James Levine, David Zinman, William McGlaughlin, Isaiah Jackson, Kent Nagano and James Conlon, performing the works of Bach, Brahms, Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, Prokoviev, Bernstein, Stravinsky, Ravel, de Falla, Britten Tchaikovsky, Vaughn-Williams, etc. in addition to her operatic roles, and she performs in recital.

Kreitzer has recorded with Deutsche Grammaphon, Teldec and Chandos, and is the recipient of prestigious awards, including the Flagstad Young Wagnerian Singer Award, 1st prize winner in the New York Liederkranz competition, an Astral Foundation Grant and a Sullivan Foundation Grant. She lives on the California coast with celebrated artist David Kreitzer and their two children, Anatol and Fredricka. She is currently on the music faculty of Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California,  where she produces and directs their opera workshop, vocal performance class, and has instigated master classes featuring Marilyn Horne, Jubilant Sykes, and Frederica von Stade in conjunction with Cal Poly Arts.  Kreitzer was featured in “Who’s Who in America” in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and has been a panelist on the Opera America symposium held annually nation-wide.