Shafali Jalota, soprano
British-American soprano Shafali Jalota has been praised for her "stunning vocal technique and poised stage presence" (Opera Today). She is a prizewinner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Camille Coloratura Awards, the Bel Canto Vocal Scholarship Competition, and the Flatpack Opera Competition.
She has performed internationally with companies including Opera Neo, Hampstead Garden Opera, and Bel Cantanti Opera, and will make her debut at Glyndebourne this summer. Most recently, Shafali performed the role of Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with Hampstead Garden Opera and Romilda in Handel’s Serse with Opera Neo.
Equally at home on the concert stage, Shafali has sung at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, UK, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., as well as with the Durham Symphony Orchestra and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. Shafali is a graduate of the Maryland Opera Studio and UNC Chapel Hill. She is currently based in London, UK.
We caught up with Horizon Artist soprano Shafali Jalota about spine-tingling musical moments and the value art brings to society | “I’d like everyone to understand the value that the arts bring to society...Art is part of the fabric of our lives; it should be valued that way”