The Swedish soprano Jessica Elevant commenced this season singing Morgana in Händel’s Alcina at the Confidencen Opera and Music festival. Jessica has also performed Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Konserthuset Stockholm and appeared as the soloist in the Royal Swedish Opera’s concert production The music box of the heart. Jessica’s upcoming engagements include Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, as well as two productions at the Royal Swedish Opera.
The season of 2023/24 Jessica Elevant sang the role of Lizzy in Daniel Nelson’s opera Pride and Prejudice at Norrlandsoperan. Jessica also appeared in two productions for The Young at the Opera at the Royal Swedish Opera; the role of Gun in the contemporary Opera Sleep Awake/Sova Vaken by Daniel Nelson in the concert production The music box of the heart, productions that she premiered the season before, 2022/23. That season also included the role of The Mother in the contemporary children’s opera Where is the Sandwich? by Niklas Brommare. Jessica was also covering the role of Justine for the world premiere of Mikael Karlsson’s opera Melancholia, both for the Royal Swedish Opera.
Jessica Elevant graduated from the Opera program at the Stockholm University of the Arts in 2021 and 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 and was at the same time covering the role of Ava in the world premiere of Mats Larsson Gothe’s The Promise. Jessica appeared as Musetta in La Bohème at the 2021 Dala-Floda Operafest in Sweden.
Jessica Elevant has 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 performed Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder at the opening concert at the International Wagner Congress 2019 in Venice and with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 2024. Jessica has sung with the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne 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.
December 2024
