JessicaNiles

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• Partenope (Title Role)

  Frankfurt

  Nov 2024

  • Jessica Niles keeps the ball melancholically low as the title heroine, Partenope never loses sight of the state's interests. Niles' golden, rich soprano can erupt and cascade, but mostly she is the calm pole around which the suitors lurk. The dark timbre of her voice is all the more striking because she is the only soprano far and wide.

    • Frankfurter Rundschau
    • 12 November 2024

  • First of all, there is Jessica Niles in the title role. In the foreword to the in-house opera magazine, artistic director Bernd Loebe describes the young singer as the "Brenda of the future". He is taking his cue from Brenda Rae, who launched an international career from the ensemble and can currently be seen again as Lulu in the main house. The parallel is intended to express that Jessica Niles also has a fresh, clear soprano voice with astonishing technique and, in particular, flawless coloratura fluency. But if one is to draw comparisons, then one must acknowledge that the young singer's tone is rounder, her timbre is warmer, and her middle to low range has more power and volume than is the case with Brenda Rae. There is no need to describe her as "someone of the future", because her voice, her creative ability and her stage presence show that she is the "Jessica Niles of the present", an artistic personality who, with engagements at the State Operas in Munich and Berlin, the Salzburg Festival and a busy concert schedule with renowned conductors, can no longer be described as an "insider tip". But since contracts in the opera business are signed well in advance, the Frankfurt Opera can be congratulated on having engaged this fabulous singer in time before the steep career that has already begun makes her fee unaffordable.

    • Der Opernfreund
    • 23 November 2024

  • The American soprano Niles portrays the title character with nobility and vocal strength.

    • Kulturfreak.de
    • 13 November 2024

  • Jessica Niles as Partenope, who sings incredibly casually but with majestic lyricism, faces the warrior with ready grace...

    • Frankfurter Allgemeine
    • 11 November 2024

  • Jessica Niles has the ideal voice [for the title character]; she performs coloratura arias in all their splendour and sings cadenzas magnificently.

    • Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz
    • 12 November 2024

• Foccroulle's Cassandra (Sandra)

  La Monnaie / De Munt

  Sep 2023 - Sep 2023

  • Jessica Niles délivre une remarquable prestation en Sandra, figure touchante et courageuse à laquelle la soprano apporte conviction, fraîcheur et profondeur. Jessica Niles delivers a remarkable performance as Sandra, a touching and courageous figure to whom the soprano brings conviction, freshness and depth.

    • Sébastien Foucart, Concerto.net
    • 10 September 2023

  • Jessica Niles est une Sandra convaincante dans son engagement et ses questionnements existentiels. La soprano américaine passe facilement du registre léger au dramatique, aux prises avec des lignes vocales exigeantes. En tant que comédienne de stand-up, elle est pleine de brio et engage le public alternant discours scientifique, humour et démonstrations pratiques. Jessica Niles is a convincing Sandra in her commitment and her existential questions. The American soprano moves easily from light to dramatic register, struggling with demanding vocal lines. As a stand-up comedian, she is full of brilliance and engages the audience by alternating scientific discourse, humour and practical demonstrations.

    • Cinzia Rota, Classicagenda
    • 10 September 2023

  • Jessica Niles’ energy and vocal punch bring the galvanising power that might just get this narrative moving.

    • Eleanor Knight, bachtrack
    • 11 September 2023

  • Sandra, American soprano Jessica Niles, bubbled, shone, sang as if she was on a mission and delivered a hugely convincing performance.

    • Gerald Malone, Reaction
    • 06 October 2023

• Semele (Iris)

  Bayerische Staatsoper

  Jul 2023 - Jul 2023

  • Jessica Niles gives herself to Iris as a slapstick comedy master. Dramaturgically, her role is superfluous, but without her, the evening would only be half as fun.

    • Reinhard J. Brembeck, Süddeutsche Zeitung

  • A shining star, both vocally and in terms of acting. A clear, luminous soprano. And she's got the comedic chops…In 'Iris, impatient of thy stay' Jessica Niles and Juno aka Emily D'Angelo deliver one of the two loveliest and in this case wonderfully extended duets of the evening at the beginning of Act Two.

    • Frank Heublein, Klassik begeistert
    • 16 July 2023

  • the sprightly soprano Jessica Niles as Iris…provided much of the show’s levity, through musical delivery and physical comedy.

    • Joshua Barone, The New York Times
    • 16 July 2023

• Haydn’s L’infedeltà delusa (Sandrina)

  Bayerische Staatsoper

  Sep 2022 - Sep 2022

  • Their vocal power reserves are remarkable. Especially in the moments of full physical commitment. Passion flows from all vocal and acting pores. Soprano Jessica Niles sings Sandrina like an energetic volcano. Clear, transparent, spirited, yet accurate and controlled, for example, in challenging octave jumps…Personally, I am particularly subject to the vocal emotional force and the unconditional powerful play of Jessica Niles. Full commitment! In me you won a fan Ms. Niles.

    • Klassik begeistert

  • The central trio of women…are of very good quality: hats off to Jessica Niles in particular, whose rather dramatic air in the second act is perhaps the highlight of this evening.

    • ConcertoNet

  • The colorfulness and emotional expression of Jessica Niles’ soprano become the highlights of the evening in Sandrina's arias.

    • OperaOnline

  • Above all, Jessica Niles is to be named Sandrina as a marriage victim, a grandiose young voice with enormous potential.

    • KlassikInfo