Ginger Costa-Jackson is an Italian-American operatic mezzo-soprano and perennial artist with the Metropolitan Opera since entering its Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in 2007. Costa-Jackson has performed in her native Italian, English, French, and Spanish, and speaks these languages fluently, along with limited German. While her signature role is Carmen, Costa-Jackson is also a comedienne, as in her Marchesa di Poggio and also her 2009 Celia in Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe with the San Francisco Symphony.