Jasmin Ward is a soprano from Virginia, currently in her first year of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. During the Met’s 2025–26 season, she will cover the roles of the Strawberry Woman and Lily in Porgy and Bess, then make her company debut as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. She recently made her company and role debut as Gerhilde in Die Walküre at the Santa Fe Opera as a member of the Apprentice Artist Program. Recent operatic engagements include several roles with Juilliard Opera such as Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites, Rose Segal in John Musto’s Later the Same Evening, and Amelia in Simon Boccanegra. On the concert stage, she made her Alice Tully Hall debut in 2025 performing selections from Strauss’s Four Last Songs, performed selections from Brahms’s Liebeslieder and Neue Liebeslieder with the Wintergreen Music Festival, appeared as the soprano soloist in the Richmond Ballet’s production of Vivaldi’s Gloria, and performed at the 2022 Virginia Gubernatorial inauguration. In 2024, she was awarded the Murray Rosenthal/Philip Hagemann Award from the Opera Index Vocal Competition and the following year, was named a semi-finalist in Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition and received the Florence and Paul DeRosa Prize from the Juilliard School. She is an alumna of the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artist Program, The Denyce Graves Foundation’s Shared Voices program, and Wintergreen Music Festival’s LEAD Cooperative. She holds degrees in voice from Virginia Commonwealth University and the Juilliard School.