Shelley
Jackson

Soprano

Shelley Jackson

Soprano

Prize winner of the Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens, Italian- American soprano Shelley Jackson has earned critical praise in a number of title roles across Europe, as "a bel canto virtuoso" and "a tragedienne of the highest order". In recent seasons, she debuted as Tosca at Malmö Opera, Anna Bolena at the Badisches Staatstheater and Opéra de Lausanne, and Manon at the Salzburg Landestheater.

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Col sorriso d'innocenza, Il pirata- Bellini

Greek National Opera, Maria Callas Grand Prix

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Tu puniscimi, Luisa Miller- Verdi

Copenhagen, December 2019

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Vissi d'arte, Tosca, Puccini

Copenhagen, October 2020

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Ave Maria, Otello- Verdi

Rome, June 2022

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Career Highlights/Education

The Santa Fe Opera

Principal Artist, 2016

Opernhaus Zürich

International Opera Studio, 2014-2016

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Winfried Hofinger, Dusseldorf, Germany

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Lady Macbeth von Mtsesnk

Lady Macbeth

Landestheater Detmold

La bohème

Mimì

Theater Bielefeld

Tosca

Floria Tosca

Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater und Sinfonieorchester

Anna Bolena

Opernhaus Zürich

Tosca

Floria Tosca

Malmö Opera

Eugene Onegin

Tatyana

Buxton Festival

Don Giovanni

Donna Anna

Salzburger Landestheater

Anna Bolena

Opéra de Lausanne

Anna Bolena

Badisches Staatstheater

Manon

Salzburger Landestheater

Biography

Prize winner of the Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens, Italian- American soprano Shelley Jackson has earned critical praise in a number of title roles across Europe, combining vocal power with theatrical intensity. She recently debuted as Tosca at Malmö Opera and the Schleswig-Holsteinsiche Landestheater, Anna Bolena at the Badisches Staatstheater, Opéra de Lausanne and Opernhaus Zürich (cover), and Manon at the Salzburg Landestheater, and she will make her debut as Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in spring 2023. As a member of the International Opera Studio in Zürich, she sang Micaëla in Carmen and Musetta in La bohème, and created the protagonist role of Song Lian in the world premiere of Rote Laterne. In the following seasons, she sang Mimì in La bohème at the Haus für Mozart in Salzburg, Dorset Opera and Theater Bielefeld, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Salzburg, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin at the Buxton Festival, and Micaëla at the Grange Festival and the Teatro Massimo Palermo, where she returned for the Petite Messe Solonelle. As an apprentice at the Santa Fe Opera, she premiered Laurent Pelly’s new production on opening night of Don Pasquale as Norina, and returned for the Italian Singer in Capriccio. Shelley has won prizes from the Veronica Dunne Competition, Concours International de Chant Marmandais, NSAL, Giargiari, Zachary, Mario Lanza, Licia Albanese- Puccini, and Liederkranz Foundations. She holds degrees from the Peabody Institute, Temple University, and the Academy of Vocal Arts, where her performances included Violetta in La traviata, Tatyana, Iolanta, and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia. In addition, she spent two years of study with Mirella Freni in Modena, Italy.

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"Anna Bolena was Shelley Jackson, whose soprano is supported by a great middle register, velvety and burnished, which explodes in fireworks of brilliant, powerful high notes. The volume of her voice was impressive and exciting, with a remarkable range of dynamics.. Her acting was remarkable; she managed to express all the different facets of Anna's personality.."

— Bachtrack, Anna Bolena 2019

"Not only due to her enormous vocal quality, but also Shelley Jackson with her powerful, colorful, melodious, dramatic soprano as a counterpart, is [Cavaradossi’s] equal in every respect, still achieving lightness in the extreme fortissimo and not forcing. Both are always vocally sovereign in their interpretation, and both actors realize everything credibly and uniquely in terms of content, subtle in facial expressions and gestures, erotically piquant, dramatically virtuosic. "

— Opernglas, Tosca 2022

"The cast was dominated by the superb Anna of Shelley Jackson.. The American soprano had made a strong impression in the role in Karlsruhe last year and she again proved memorable: her voice was rich and rounded across its range and her breath control, coloratura and phrasing were exemplary. Her dazzling vocal performance was matched by powerful acting, and there were moments where she resembled a dark haired Princess Diana. "

— Opera Magazine, Anna Bolena 2019

"Never have I been so moved by this opera… The soprano Shelley Jackson’s Tatyana . . . wow! This is the fourth time I’ve seen Onegin but the first in which such a spellbinding, gut-wrenching, show-stopping depiction of a woman suddenly, madly, hopelessly and stupidly in love, has shaken me as this did."

— The Times, Eugene Onegine, 2019

"The encounter with Shelley Jackson proved to be something of a revelation. In the bravura role [of Anna Bolena] the young American soprano, making her German debut, gave a superbly exciting performance. With brilliantly immaculate coloratura, pinpoint articulation in the passagework and fluid, perfectly even runs she proved herself a bel canto virtuoso who could also captivate with expressive tone. What is more, her musicianship is exceptionally refined, with phrasing, dynamic shading, featherlight soft singing and a range of nuance that marked her out as a singing tragedienne of the highest order. She was just as convincing in Anna Bolena’s melancholy lyricism as in her desperate outbursts and, in the second act, her heroic expression of hurt pride."

— Die Rheinpfalzer Tagblatt, Anna Bolena 2018

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