Jessica Tassinari is a mezzo-soprano working internationally between Europe and the Middle East. She has appeared at venues such as Oper Frankfurt, Oper Zürich, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and the Festival della Valle d’Itria.
Recent engagements include Die große Wörterfabrik at Oper Frankfurt as well as productions like Elektra and world premieres at Staatstheater Wiesbaden. She has also performed the title role in Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face and regularly appears in both standard and contemporary repertoire. Further performances have taken her to the Festival della Valle d’Itria and major European concert venues.
Her operatic roles include Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) and Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi).
She has worked with directors including Kirsten Harms, Roland Schwab, Daniela Kerck and Christian Spuck, and with conductors such as Marco Armiliato, Sebastian Weigle and Holger Reinhardt. She is a prizewinner of the Omaggio a Maria Callas Competition in Città di Brescia and participated in the final rounds of the Tenor Viñas Competition.
She studied in Freiburg and Frankfurt and further trained at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, the Hochschule der Künste Bern and the Accademia di Belcanto Rodolfo Celletti. Supported by scholarships from the Rosenberg Foundation and the Giovanni Omodeo Foundation. She studied with Brigitte Fassbender, Helmut Deutsch, Sherman Lowe, Vivica Genaux and Christa Ludwig, Prof. Angela Nick, Prof. Heyer and currently works with Tanja Ariane Baumgartner.
Alongside her operatic work, she is involved in trans-cultural artistic projects as a member of the Qantara Trio. She is also active in vocal pedagogy and research-based practice, integrating universal vocal principles from belcanto, stylistic and functional training approaches with research on optimal performance states for singers.