...Jessica Sandidge, who brings a melting soprano voice and vulnerability to Mimi, the winsome seamstress stricken with tuberculosis..."
-Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
Applauded for her “voice of both power and beauty” (Operawire), soprano Jessica Sandidge's credits are numerous and span the country's opera houses. Her recent performances include La Voix Humaine, a live performance recorded on a green screen, which was later screened at a movie theater in North Hollywood. Her recent role debut as Tosca with Angels Vocal Art showed the full range of her voice and abilities as a singing actor. She also reprised the role of Musetta (La Bohème) with Teatro Lirico d'Europa. This season she debuted the role of Eva Peròn in the US premiere of Corpus Evita, by Carlos Franzetti. Ms. Sandidge has given several concert performances such as the world premiere performance of Ivo Antognini’s A Prayer for Mother Earth, at Carnegie Hall. This concert also included solos in Requiem for the Living by Dan Forrest. She was also a solo artist in the National Chorale's Messiah Sing-in at David Geffen Hall, and Violetta’s Aria Sempre libera at Rose Hall. This season’s engagements include her debut as Manon Lescaut with Opera Festival Chicago.Ms. Sandidge has performed with The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Sarasota Opera, St Pete Opera, Musica Viva in Hong Kong, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Pacific Opera Project, and Heartbeat Opera, among others.
"With clarion soprano notes that excite and energize both the gathered crowd and us as audience, Jessica Sandidge is fabulously suited in her glowing radiance and in her magnetic vocals to be the mythical Evita who accurately predicts, 'When I’m gone … I will live in a million souls.'"
-Eddie Reynolds, Theatre Eddys, SF Bay Area Theater Reviews, February 17, 2024
“Every line, interaction and full-out showpiece is an absolute delight. Sandidge has a voice you could listen to all day as she negotiates florid coloratura with great ease up and down her range.”
-Gayle Williams, Sarasota Herald-Tribune February 20, 2022