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Jessica Sandidge’s soprano first joined the Metropolitan Opera roster in 2016 and covered roles in Jenufa (Jano), The Merry Widow (Sylvianne), and Marnie (Dawn). Highlight performances include NY City Opera in Pigmalione (Galatea), Sarasota Opera in Fille du Régiment (Marie), La Bohème (Mimì), and La Wally (Walter), St Petersburg Opera in La Traviata (Violetta), Musica Viva in The Merry Widow (title role), and Pittsburgh Festival Opera in La Bohème (Mimì). She has debuted as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and Licoln Center.
Letters is a Chamber Opera composed by Kirsten Volness for six female voices and string quintet. Co-librettists Susan Werbe and Kate Holland wove together a moving libretto from letters written by wives, mothers, nurses, and artists during WWI.
Jessica Sandidge’s soprano voice has been described as “plush” by The New York Times and as a "voice of both power and beauty" by Opera Wire. She first joined the Metropolitan Opera in their 2016/17 season as Jano(c) in Janácek's Jenufa. In 2017 she returned as Sylvainne(c) in The Merry Widow, and again in the 2018/19 season as Dawn(c) in the premiere of Nico Muhly's Marnie. Of her recent performance as Musetta with Sarasota Opera, Your Observer described her as "appropriately seductive and tempestuous as Musetta, singing her waltz song with great aplomb." This same season, she also debuted the trouser role Walter in La Wally. In 2020 she also made role and company debuts with Pacific Opera Project singing in a Gluck double bill of La Corona (Atalanta) and Il Parnaso Confuso (Apollo), of which Broadway World wrote: “…soprano Jessica Sandidge offered silvery high notes, decorated runs, and a dramatic middle range that made her characters come to life.” Upcoming performances this season include the one act one woman opera La Voix Humaine by Poulenc with Angels Vocal Arts. In the 2019-2020 season, Ms. Sandidge debuted the role of Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly) with Long Island Lyric in New York, then reprised the role of Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) in Hong Kong with Musica Viva. In the 2018-2019 season she made her company debut with New York City Opera in their production of Donizetti's Il Pigmalione, of which The New York Times wrote: "Jessica Sandidge's belated entrance as Galatea came as something of a relief, all the more so for the loveliness of her singing."
She/Her
Jessica Sandidge’s soprano first joined the Metropolitan Opera roster in 2016 and covered roles in Jenufa (Jano), The Merry Widow (Sylvianne), and Marnie (Dawn). Highlight performances include NY City Opera in Pigmalione (Galatea), Sarasota Opera in Fille du Régiment (Marie), La Bohème (Mimì), and La Wally (Walter), St Petersburg Opera in La Traviata (Violetta), Musica Viva in The Merry Widow (title role), and Pittsburgh Festival Opera in La Bohème (Mimì). She has debuted as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and Licoln Center.
Letters is a Chamber Opera composed by Kirsten Volness for six female voices and string quintet. Co-librettists Susan Werbe and Kate Holland wove together a moving libretto from letters written by wives, mothers, nurses, and artists during WWI.
Jessica Sandidge’s soprano voice has been described as “plush” by The New York Times and as a "voice of both power and beauty" by Opera Wire. She first joined the Metropolitan Opera in their 2016/17 season as Jano(c) in Janácek's Jenufa. In 2017 she returned as Sylvainne(c) in The Merry Widow, and again in the 2018/19 season as Dawn(c) in the premiere of Nico Muhly's Marnie. Of her recent performance as Musetta with Sarasota Opera, Your Observer described her as "appropriately seductive and tempestuous as Musetta, singing her waltz song with great aplomb." This same season, she also debuted the trouser role Walter in La Wally. In 2020 she also made role and company debuts with Pacific Opera Project singing in a Gluck double bill of La Corona (Atalanta) and Il Parnaso Confuso (Apollo), of which Broadway World wrote: “…soprano Jessica Sandidge offered silvery high notes, decorated runs, and a dramatic middle range that made her characters come to life.” Upcoming performances this season include the one act one woman opera La Voix Humaine by Poulenc with Angels Vocal Arts. In the 2019-2020 season, Ms. Sandidge debuted the role of Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly) with Long Island Lyric in New York, then reprised the role of Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) in Hong Kong with Musica Viva. In the 2018-2019 season she made her company debut with New York City Opera in their production of Donizetti's Il Pigmalione, of which The New York Times wrote: "Jessica Sandidge's belated entrance as Galatea came as something of a relief, all the more so for the loveliness of her singing."
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