Welsh Soprano Jessica Cale is First Prize winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and London Handel Festival International Singing Competition audience prize winner (2020). Equally at home in baroque and contemporary repertoire, with a particular affinity for Mozart thrown in to the mix, Jessica enjoys a varied career across the UK and Europe on both opera and concert stages. Jessica made her debut in 2025 at Glyndebourne Opera as Bobbie in the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Railway Children. Further operatic highlights include Fortuna/Juno Il ritorno d’Ulisse and Countess Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro Opera First performance for which Jessica received the Leonard Ingrams Award for Garsington Opera, Giulietta I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Poppea The Coronation of Poppea for English Touring Opera, Violetta cover La traviata and Helena cover A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Glyndebourne, 2nd Niece Peter Grimes Teatro la Fenice.

On the concert platform, Jessica has performed under the batons of Masaaki Suzuki, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Paul McCreesh, Harry Christophers, Jonathan Cohen, Laurence Cummings and Christian Curnyn. Notable concert highlights include performances with the Dunedin Consort and Samling Artists at Wigmore Hall, Handel’s Susanna at Wiener Konzerthaus, Bach’s Mass in B Minor at KKL Luzern with the Gabrieli Consort, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio European tour with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Purcell’s King Arthur at Opera de Lausanne, Handel’s Susanna at the London Handel Festival, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Britten’s Les Illuminations in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Jessica is a keen song recitalist collaborating regularly with pianists Ella O’Neill and George Ireland. Jessica has given recitals of Strauss and a programme of American song at the Oxford International Song Festival (formerly Oxford Lieder). Jessica is proud to be a Samling Artist and an Associate Artist of The Mozartists.