Melissa
Sondhi

Melissa Sondhi
(She/Her) Praised for "time and again sing(ing) with a voice that is nothing short of wowing" (Theatre Eddys), Indian-American soprano Melissa Sondhi is an opera singer on the rise. In the 2024-2025 season, she will be returning as the first inaugural Wadhwani Artist-in-Residence at Opera San José, and will debut the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and return to the role of Musetta in La bohème. She will also debut the role of Mariane in Tartuffe with Pocket Opera.
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Melissa Sondhi

Praised for her "charm" (San Francisco Chronicle-Datebook), for "time and again sing(ing) with a voice that is nothing short of wowing" (Theatre Eddys), her "remarkable dynamic range" (Operaville), her "warm and evocative" voice (Cordell Reports), her "verve and swagger" (Aisle Seat Review), and her "effortless performance" (Opera Tattler), Indian-American soprano Melissa Sondhi is an opera singer on the rise.

In the 2024-2025 season, Melissa returned to Opera San José for her second season as the inaugural Wadhwani Resident Artist, debuting the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and singing the role of Musetta in La bohème. She also returned to Pocket Opera to debut the role of Mariane in Tartuffe.

In the 2023-2024 season, Melissa was the first ever inaugural Wadhwani Resident Artist, debuting the roles of Juliette in Roméo et Juliette, Gilda in Rigoletto, and covering the role of Rosalba in Florencia en el Amazonas. She also sang the role of Musetta in La bohème with Pocket Opera and Cinnabar Theater. In the 2022-2023 season, she made her San Francisco Opera Guild debut singing the role of Musetta in La bohème, and returned to Opera San José to sing the role of Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro. She covered the roles of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Nannetta in Falstaff as well. She also returned to Pocket Opera to sing the role of Adele in their production of Die Fledermaus. In the 2021-2022 season, Melissa sang the role of Iza in The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein with Pocket Opera, and also made her principle role debut with Opera San José singing First Witch in Dido and Aeneas. In the 2020-2021 season, she sang the role of Angelina in Lyric Theatre of San José's production of Trial by Jury. In the 2019-2020 season, she covered the roles of Ida in Opera San José's productions of Die Fledermaus and the Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel. She also performed the roles of Le feu and Le rossignol in L’enfant et les sortilèges with Air Opera Collective. In the 2018-2019 season, she was seen as Giannetta in The Elixir of Love with Pocket Opera, Edith in The Pirates of Penzance, and Fiametta in The Gondoliers with Lamplighters Music Theatre. ​

In 2025, Melissa was a semifinalist in the prestigious Loren L. Zachary competition, and in 2023, she won first place in the Adult Classical Voice category at the Los Angeles Semifinals of the Music International Grand Prix competition. In 2021, Melissa was a semifinalist in the Orpheus Vocal Competition, and in 2017, she was a finalist at the East Bay Opera League’s Young Artists Scholarship Awards Competition.

​Melissa holds a BM from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance (2015), and an MM from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (2017).

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Pocket Opera

2019 - 2025
San Francisco, CA

Mariane in Tartuffe

2025 - 2025

Musetta in La bohème

2024 - 2024

Adele in Die Fledermaus

2023 - 2023

Iza in The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein

2022 - 2022

Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore

2019 - 2019

Opera San José

2021 - 2024
San José, CA

Gilda in Rigoletto

2024 - 2024

Rosalba (cover) in Florencia en el Amazonas

2024 - 2024

Pamina in Die Zauberflöte

2024 - 2024

Musetta in La bohème

2024 - 2024

Nannetta (cover) in Falstaff

2023 - 2023

Juliette in Roméo et Juliette

2023 - 2023

Barbarina and Susanna (cover) in Le nozze di Figaro

2022 - 2022

First Witch in Dido and Aeneas

2021 - 2021

Le feu/le rossignol in L'enfant et les sortilèges

2020 - 2020
San Francisco, CA

Fiametta in The Gondoliers

2018 - 2018

Edith in The Pirates of Penzance

2018 - 2018

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