Praised for her “keen expression and impressive delivery” (Music in Cincinnati) with a “sound that is rich, full and luminous throughout its range” (Seen and Heard International), American soprano Jessica Faselt was a participant of the 2022 Birgit Nilsson Master Class in Sweden and the recipient of the 2021 Hildegard Behrens Foundation Award and the 2020 George London Foundation Award.

The 2024–25 season features a number of notable engagements for Jessica, including a cover assignment with Lyric Opera of Chicago as Leonore in Fidelio and a debut with Santa Fe Opera in Wagner’s Die Walküre, singing the role of Helmwige and covering Sieglinde. The season also includes important returns to the Metropolitan Opera (singing the Voice of a Falcon in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten) and the Fort Worth Symphony (covering Senta in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer).

Jessica’s engagements for the 2023–24 season included Freia in Das Rheingold with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, Helmwige in the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra’s touring performances of Die Walküre in Rotterdam, Baden-Baden, Dortmund, and Paris, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and a role and house debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Cincinnati Opera.

Season highlights for 2022–23 included the role of Freia in Das Rheingold with The Atlanta Opera, the role of First Lady in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera, and debuts with Detroit Opera and the LA Philharmonic (at the Hollywood Bowl) singing Helmwige in Act III of Die Walküre.

Jessica was a winner of the 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Upon performing with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in the Grand Finals Concert, Jessica was presented with the Birgit Nilsson Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. She went on to become a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program from 2018 to 2021, and made her debut with the company in 2018 as a Novice in Puccini’s Suor Angelica.