Welsh soprano Jessica Cale is a First Prize winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and audience prize winner at the London Handel Festival International Singing Competition. In 2025 Jessica made her Glyndebourne role debut as Bobbie in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Railway Children (world premiere).
Recent operatic highlights include: Giulietta I Capuletti e i Montecchi (English Touring Opera); her debut at Garsington Opera as Countess Almaviva in the OperaFirst performance of Le nozze di Figaro for which she received the Leonard Ingrams Award; 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 Peter Grimes and her 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 and the London Handel Players 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 has performed as soprano soloist for recordings with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment of Bach’s St John Passion alongside Gerald Finley and Mark Padmore, and ‘Telling Tales with Telemann’ alongside Tabea Debus. Jessica is proud to be an Associate Artist of The Mozartists and a Samling Artist. Jessica is a keen recitalist and has given recitals at the Oxford International Song Festival (previously Oxford Lieder) of Strauss alongside George Ireland, and a programme of American song with Hamish Brown. Jessica also works regularly with award-winning pianist Samling Artist Ella O’Neill.
Jessica completed her undergraduate degree at Cardiff University and is a graduate of the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio with an Artist Diploma in Opera and a Master of Performance with distinction. Whilst at the RCM, Jessica was the Robert Lancaster Scholar and is hugely grateful for the additional support of an Help Musicians UK Sybil Tutton Award, the Josephine Baker Trust and the Countess of Munster Trust. Jessica has participated in Masterclasses with Sir Mark Elder, Dame Ann Murray, Gerald Finley, Edith Wiens and Roger Vignoles.
