Bethany Jelinek

Bethany Jelinek, soprano, is a passionate performer and a dynamic competitor from Dallas, TX. In March 2024, Jelinek was a semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and in May 2024, she was a finalist in the inaugural Heartland Sings Vocal Competition. She was awarded the 2023 Jonathan Pell People’s Choice Award from the Dallas Opera Guild Biennial Lone Star Vocal Competition, the 2022 Roy and Sue Johnson Opera Theatre Award, and the 2021 Thomas Hayward Memorial Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Singer at Southern Methodist University where she received her Bachelor and Master of music degrees in vocal performance. Recent credits include Micaëla (Carmen), Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Abigail Williams (The Crucible), and Fiordiligi (Cosí fan tutte).

As the Resident Artist Soprano this season with Lyric Opera, she sang the role of Querulous String in The Haberdasher Prince, and will sing Diana in Cruzar la Cara de la Luna and Maya in the world premiere of Maya and the Magic Ring by Lori Laitman and Dana Gioia.