Jessica Pratt (soprano)

[5] In 2003, she won the Australian Singing Competition,[3] which brought her to Europe, and she was subsequently invited by Gianluigi Gelmetti to continue her studies at the Rome Opera.

She appeared as Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula in Como, St. Gallen, Pavia, and Cremona in October/November 2010, followed by a run of Elvira in Doizetti's I puritani in four smaller Italian houses in October 2010/11.

[7] Pratt has also performed in international opera theatres and festivals including La Scala where she first sang in Donizetti's Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali in 2011.

Other European venues include the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, (as Mozart's Queen of the Night) in February 2011 under Colin Davis.

[9] She has collaborated with conductors such as Daniel Oren, Kent Nagano, Ralf Weikart, Donato Renzetti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Wayne Marshall, Christian Thielemann, David Parry and Nello Santi.

[citation needed] 2017 was opened with Verdi's Rigoletto for Opera de Oviedo[12] in Spain where she performed during the year in Las Palmas (debuting La fille du régiment),[13] Valencia (Tancredi), Bilbao (Don Pasquale), Barcelona (debuting L'elisir d'amore) and a tour in Finland for the Savonlinna Opera Festival with Madrid's Teatro Real (I puritani).

[16] In 2020, Pratt debuted in the role of Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, in the 1912 original version and sung in Italian, at the Festival della Valle d'Itria.

This young English soprano has a ringing top, good looks, stage temperament and enough vocal agility to make sense of Rossini's love-struck heroine.