JACQUELINE EVILL is the first winner of the Holland Park American Express Prize for the most outstanding operatic performance of the year. She won the prize, awarded by a distinguished panel of critics and opera journalists, for her performance as Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. The panel, who voted for her unanimously, described her as "utterly convincing and enthralling from the first moment she walked onstage". Her many Verdi roles include Leonora in Il Trovatore, Violetta in La Traviata and Desdemona in Otello and other repertoire includes Tosca and Tatiana.
She has worked with the Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera Holland Park, European Chamber Opera, Kent Opera and Travelling Opera. Jacqueline sang Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at Sadlers Wells Theatre and among the many complimentary reviews she received were the following: "the palm must go to Jacqueline Evill's Countess, whose command of her role is both dramatically and vocally complete"-The Independent. "Jacqueline Evill's exquisitely sung Countess"- Opera magazine.
Jacqueline is a founder member of Sulis.