Praised by The Washington Times as “sprightly and charming” with “a voice as clear and acrobatic as one could wish,” soprano and actor Abigail Paschke has built a dynamic career spanning opera, musical theater, concert, and television, with appearances ranging from the Kennedy Center and Lyric Opera of Chicago to Amazon Prime Video’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
 
In the 2026–27 season, Paschke appears as the First Wood Nymph in Dvořák’s Rusalka with Salt Marsh Opera and joins the Greater Bridgeport Symphony as the soprano soloist in Henry Mollicone’s Beatitude Mass. Recent engagements include Diana Devereaux in Of Thee I Sing and Trixie Flynn in Let ’Em Eat Cake in a rare presentation of the Gershwins’ companion works with Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera.
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Paschke has appeared in several major productions of Bernstein’s West Side Story, including with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center as Rosalia as part of the worldwide Bernstein at 100 centennial celebration, conducted by Steven Reineke and directed by Francesca Zambello; with Lyric Opera of Chicago as Francisca; and internationally with Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy as Rosalia. Her musical theater repertoire also includes Cinderella in Into the Woods and Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel with Opera Montana, as well as Maria in West Side Story and The Sound of Music with The Carnegie.
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Additional stage credits include appearances with The Glimmerglass Festival as Ellie Mae Chipley in Show Boat and in The Ghosts of Versailles, later performing the latter at the Opéra Royal de Versailles in France. Other operatic credits include Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with Salt Marsh Opera, the Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw with Madison Lyric Stage, Valencienne in The Merry Widow and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro with Kentucky Opera, Noémie in Massenet’s Cendrillon with Opera Company of Middlebury, and Sally in Die Fledermaus with Des Moines Metro Opera, where she was hailed as “comedy gold” and described by Opera News as “hysterical.” She has also performed with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Virginia Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Sarasota Opera, and Opera Saratoga.
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As a concert artist, Paschke has appeared as the soprano soloist in repertoire including Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. Drawing on her background in both classical music and musical theater, she also creates and performs original cabaret programs featuring repertoire from Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and the classical canon.
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On television, Paschke appeared as Sandra Guttenburg in the Emmy Award-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with Amazon Prime Video and Alice in the Emmy-nominated Le Comte Ory with Iowa PBS. A highly trained dancer as well as a singer, she studied with Russian prima ballerina Valentina Kozlova and studied flamenco in Granada, Spain. She has served as Dance Captain for two festival seasons at Des Moines Metro Opera and was featured as a flamenco dancer in Stephen Barlow’s production of Carmen with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
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Paschke holds a Master of Music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a Grand Prize winner of the National Orpheus Vocal Competition, a National semi-finalist of the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, recipient of the John Alexander Memorial Award from the Corbett Opera Scholarship Competition, and a recipient of an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.






*Ms. Paschke is an active member of Actors' Equity Association and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA).