Clara Jacobo was an Italian opera singer. She began her career around 1923 at the Italian provincial stages. She then came to the U.S., where since 1928 she performed at the Metropolitan Opera of New York. Here she sang in the seasons 1928-29, 1930–31, 1933–34 and 1936-37 batches from the dramatic vocal category.

In 1932 and 1933 Jacobo performed at the Monte Carlo Opera as Aida

Aida

Aida sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette...

, Amelia in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera

Un ballo in maschera

Un ballo in maschera , is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with text by Antonio Somma. The libretto is loosely based on an 1833 play, Gustave III, by French playwright Eugène Scribe who wrote about the historical assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden...

and as the title heroine in Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia (opera)

Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramma, or opera, in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play by Victor Hugo, in its turn after the legend of Lucrezia Borgia. Lucrezia Borgia was first performed on 26 December 1833 at La Scala, Milan with...

by Donizetti.