Harper, Jessica
No. 24
Voice type: Soprano
Country: Australia
Date of birth: 22 June, 1990
The Australian soprano graduated from the Australian National University School of Music. She is a founding board member of the Apollo Opera Collective and was the inaugural Artist in Residence at St Andrew’s College, Sydney University, in 2018. She was the recipient of the Dame Nellie Melba Scholarship with the Melba Opera Trust for 2018. She attended the Accademia del Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti” in Martina Franca, Italy (2018), and was the winner of the Opera Foundation for young Australians Dalwood-Wylie AIMS Graz Award, the AIMS Sundell Study Award in 2019, the Inaugural Limestone Coast Opera Lucca Competition (2018), the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera and Arts Support Group Scholarship (2017). She was also selected as one of three singers to partake in a Masterclass with Dame Emma Kirkby as part of the Sydney Opera House Awards (2017).
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Bist du!
Britten: Embroidery in childhood – Ellen’s Emboidery Aria from Peter Grimes
Verdi: Tu del mio Carlo... Carlo vive? – Amalia’s aria from I Masnadieri
Semi-final
Mozart: Crudele?... Non mi dir – Donna Anna’s recitative and aria from Don Giovanni
Massenet: Ah! je suis seule... Dis-moi que je suis belle – Thaïs’s recitative and aria from Thaïs
Final
Mozart: E Susanna non vien!... Dove sono i bei momenti – Rosina’s recitative and aria from Le nozze di Figaro
Puccini: Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì – Mimì’s aria from La bohème
Strauss: Klänge der Heimat – Czardas from Die Fledermaus