Jessica Elevant

The young Swedish soprano Jessica Elevant will this spring appear in the role of Lizzy in Daniel Nelson’s opera Pride and Prejudice at Norrlandsoperan in Sweden. In 2022-2023, Jessica has been engaged at the Royal Swedish Opera in three productions for the Young at the Opera. She sang the role of Gun in the contemporary Opera Sleep Awake/Sova Vaken by Daniel Nelson, The Mother in the new opera by Niklas Brommare; Where is the Sandwich?/Var är smörgåsen? and she has been the soloist in the concert production The music box of the heart. Jessica has also been a cover of the role Justine in Mikael Karlsson’s opera Melancholia.

Jessica made her debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in the season of 2021/22 in the role of The Princess in Benjamin Stern’s opera The Snow Queen. Jessica appeared as Musetta in La Bohème at the 2021 Dala-Floda Operafest in Sweden.

Jessica Elevant graduated from the Opera program at the Stockholm University of the Arts in 2021. Jessica Elevant has besides her studies, appeared in several concerts such as Mendelsohn’s Elias, Stradella’s La forza delle Stelle and Verdi Requiem in various concert venues in Sweden. Jessica has performed Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder at the opening concert at the International Wagner Congress 2019 in Venice. Jessica was the same year a guest at the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne where she sung the soprano solo in Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, led by Nader Abbassi.

In 2019 Jessica was invited to participate in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme masterclass Opera Arias with Antonio Pappano, in which she had the privilege to work with Mo Pappano, Pamela Bullock and Julia Faulkner.

In 2018 Jessica Elevant participated in the international singing competition WagnerStimmen in Karlsruhe where she won both the jury’s First prize and the Audience award. The same year, Jessica was awarded the scholarship of the Swedish Wagner Society for young, promising Wagner singers. Jessica Elevant has received the 2019 scholarship from the Marianne and Sigvard Bernadotte art fund

November 2023