Jessica Cale
Soprano
Welsh Soprano, Jessica Cale, is the 2020 First Prize winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and Joint Audience prize winner at the 2020 London Handel Festival International Singing Competition. Recent Operatic highlights include: covering the role of Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata for Glyndebourne Opera; Jessica’s debut for Garsington Opera performing the role of Countess Almaviva in the OperaFirst performance of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro; covering the role of Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a member of the chorus for the 2023 Glyndebourne Festival; European and house debut at Teatro La Fenice playing 2nd Niece in Britten’s Peter Grimes; role debut in the title role for Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea for English Touring Opera.
On the concert platform, Jessica has performed under the batons of Masaaki Suzuki, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Paul McCreesh, Harry Christophers, Jonathan Cohen and Christian Curnyn. Notable concert highlights include: Bach’s Mass in B Minor at KKL Luzern with the Gabrieli Consort; Bach’s Christmas Oratorio European tour with Masaaki Suzuki and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Purcell’s King Arthur at Opera de Lausanne; Handel’s Scipione at the London Handel Festival; Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Britten’s Les Illuminations in Vilnius, Lithuania for the British Ambassador; Bach with the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall; Jessica’s debut at Cadogan Hall with The Mozartists; Porpora and Handel at Bilbao’s Musika Música Festival with Arcangelo, Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall and Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the Berlin Philharmoniker.
Jessica completed her undergraduate degree at Cardiff University and is a graduate of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio where she was the Robert Lancaster scholar. Jessica is also a Samling Artist, an alumna of the Genesis Sixteen programme and a keen recitalist.
