Jessica Niles

The American soprano Jessica Niles completed her singing studies at the Juilliard School in New York. From 2021 to 2023 she was a member of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where she appeared in a broad repertory ranging from Baroque to contemporary music, and in roles including Iris in Claus Guth’s new production of Semele, Sandrina in Haydn’s L’infedeltà delusa, Schwester Jasmin in a new production of Georg Friedrich Haas’s Thomas, Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Clorinda (La Cenerentola) and Voice from Heaven (Don Carlos).

In the 2023/24 season she has sung the role of Sandra in the world premiere of Bernard Foccroulle’s Cassandra at La Monnaie in Brussels and returned to Munich as Marzelline (Fidelio), Young Shepherd (Tannhäuser) and Clorinda. She has also sung Echo in a guest performance of the Bavarian State Opera at the Hong Kong Arts Festival and Musetta (La bohème) at the Theater für Niedersachsen in Hildesheim.

Her recent engagements have also included Armida and Almirena in concert performances of extracts from Handel’s Rinaldo at the Göttingen International Handel Festival and Aminta in Handel’s Aminta e Fillide with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie at the Festival Dans les Jardins de William Christie, in Versailles, at the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, at the Castell de Peralada International Music Festival and in New York.

On the concert platform Jessica Niles has performed in a Bavarian Radio broadcast recording of Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Munich Radio Orchestra, sung works by Gloria Coates with the Munich Chamber Orchestra and performed Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra.