Jacqueline Dark’s most recent performances include The Mother Abbess in the National Tour of The Sound of Music, Herodias in Opera Australia’s Salome and Fricka in their revival of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana for State Opera of SA (Best Female Performance – ‘Curtain Call’ Awards), the title role in Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna for the Adelaide Festival, Berenice in Farnace for Pinchgut Opera, Mrs Sedley in Peter Grimes for the Brisbane Festival, The Old Lady in Candide for New Zealand Opera, Anne in Tom Waits’ Black Rider for Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera, and major concerts with the Sydney, Melbourne, West Australian and Darwin Symphony Orchestras, MONA and the New Zealand Symphony.

In 2019, Jacqui joined MSO to chair a discussion panel on music and physics, with the panel including esteemed physicist Brian Cox.

In 2022, she is guest vocal soloist with The Australian Ballet in Anna Karenina and appears in concert with the Melbourne Symphony. Jacqui also performs her critically-acclaimed Jacques Brel cabaret show at major venues around the country.

After completing a Bachelor of Physics degree, Jacqui attended the Opera Studio at the Victorian College of The Arts, graduating with First Class Honours.