Welsh Soprano, Jessica Cale, is a First Prize winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Garsington Leonard Ingrams Award holder and Audience Prize winner at the London Handel Festival International Singing Competition. Recent operatic highlights include covering the role of Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata for Glyndebourne Opera, Jessica’s debut for Garsington Opera performing the role of Countess Almaviva in the OperaFirst performance of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, the title role of Poppea in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea for English Touring Opera, covering the role of Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a member of the chorus for the 2023 Glyndebourne Festival, 2nd Niece in Britten’s Peter Grimes at 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 and Christian Curnyn. Jessica is a graduate of Cardiff University and the Royal College of Music International Opera Studio.