British-Canadian soprano Jessica Muirhead completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at McGill University under the tutelage of Mrs. Lucile Villeneuve Evans, and after winning several competitions at both national and international levels, was immediately launched into a solo career on concert and opera stages across Europe and North America.
Career highlights include performing Musetta in La Bohème at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich alongside star singers Anna Netrebko and Joseph Calleja, Marguerite in Faust and Mimi in La Bohème at the Semperoper Dresden, Micaëla in Carmen at the Staatsoper Hamburg, Alice in Falstaff with Glyndebourne on Tour in England, Vreli in A Village Romeo and Juliet with Wexford Festival Opera, Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlo in Lisbon, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, her hometown.
On the concert stage, Jessica has appeared with the Hamburger Symphoniker, the Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center, the Bayerischer Rundfunkorchester, the OFUNAM Symphonic Orchestra in Mexico City, the Flanders Symphony and l’Orchestre Chambre de Genève, among others, in repertoire including Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Fauré’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony & Missa Solemnis, Verdi’s Requiem, Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder, Britten’s War Requiem, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14, to name a few. Along with performing the leading ladies in live recordings of Hans Heiling and Der Freischütz, Jessica is the featured soloist on an album of works by American composer Julian Wachner.
Jessica was a member of the Aalto-Musiktheater ensemble in Germany from 2015 – 2024, where she sang over 20 leading ladies including Violetta in La Traviata, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Marie in Smetana’s Die Verkaufte Braut, Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin, plus the title roles of Arabella, Suor Angelica, Rusalka, Luisa Miller, and Lucrezia Borgia. During this time she also kept up a busy international schedule, performing Agathe in Der Freischütz in Japan, Mimi at Welsh National Opera, and the world premiere of a one woman opera titled Kundry by Israeli-American composer Avner Dorman at the Tel Aviv Opera.
Last updated: November 2024