Jessica Harper is a mezzo-soprano from Cumbria. She is currently an Emerging Artist with Opera Greenwich, in collaboration with Greenwich Theatre. Jessica recently performed the role of Dido in Dido and Aeneas with City of Manchester Opera at the Hope Mill Theatre.

Jessica completed her postgraduate in Vocal Studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she studied singing under the tutelage of Wilma MacDougall. During her studies, Jessica performed the role of Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice with Glasgow University. She has performed scenes as Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Frasquita (Carmen) and Elisetta (Il matrimonio segreto). Jessica also performed the role of Asphodèle and sang in the chorus of L’étoile with RCS Opera.

Jessica completed her Music degree at King’s College London with First Class Honours. Whilst at King’s, she studied singing with Glenville Hargreaves. Her roles included Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) and Second Woman (Die Zauberflöte); as well as taking part in the chorus of Der Zigeunerbaron, Hänsel und Gretel and Apollo et Hyacinthus.

In the summer of 2022, Jessica performed as a soloist with the Royal Northern Sinfonia in Vaughan Williams’ Sinfonia Antartica at the Lake District Summer Music Festival. She then performed as a soloist in Vaughan Williams’ G Minor Mass with the Gaudeamus Chamber Choir to further mark the 150th Anniversary celebrations. Other oratorio works that Jessica has performed include Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, Dvořák’s Mass in D major and the Fauré Requiem.

Jessica gained First Prize in the 2021 Keldwyth Cumbrian Young Musicians Award. She was invited to take part in a British Youth Opera Summer workshop, and has sung in masterclasses with Catherine Wyn Rogers, Patricia MacMahon, Lydia Brown and Robert Murray. As a choral singer, Jessica has been a member of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, London Youth Choir, the Amabile Girls’ Choir and the Charles Wood Singers.

Most recently, Jessica performed as a soloist in the Poulenc Gloria with the Hallé Choral Academy and was delighted to be invited back to perform at the Hallé Relaxed Concert Series.