Welsh soprano Jessica Cale is a First Prize winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and London Handel Festival International Singing Competition audience prize winner. In 2024, Jessica made her debut for Garsington Opera performing the role of Countess Almaviva in the OperaFirst performance of Le nozze di Figaro for which she received the Leonard Ingrams Award.
Recent operatic highlights include Violetta (cover) La traviata, Helena (cover) A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a member of the chorus for the 2023 Glyndebourne Festival; European and house debut at Teatro La Fenice as 2nd Niece, Peter Grimes and role debut in the title role of The Coronation of Poppea, 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: J.S. Bach 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 King Arthur at Opera de Lausanne; Handel Scipione at the London Handel Festival; Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Britten Les Illuminations in Vilnius, Lithuania for the British Ambassador; Bach with the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall; Cadogan Hall debut with The Mozartists; Porpora and Handel at Bilbao’s Musika Música Festival with Arcangelo, Handel Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall and Felix Mendelssohn Elijah at the Berlin Philharmoniker.
Concert highlights for the 2024/25 season include Handel Susanna at Wiener Konzerthaus with the Dunedin Consort, and concert performances of Elijah, Messiah, Mozart Requiem, J.S. Bach Mass in B Minor, and Poulenc Gloria. Jessica returns to English Touring Opera in the Spring of 2025 to perform the role of Giulietta I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
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 and generously supported by an Help Musicians Sybil Tutton Opera Award.
