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Soprano Jessica Lennick prides herself on being able to stay busy. She is looking forward to her role debuts as Valencienne in Merry Widow with Opera Camerata in October 2010, Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Chesapeake Chamber Opera in April 2011 and premiering the role of Angeline in Mike Dutka’s Crowded House at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in September 2010.
Earlier this year she organized the Pennsylvania concert tour of Godly Noises, a sacred program for trumpet, piano, and soprano which featured virtuoso works by Mozart, Handel, and Bach. Chesapeake Concert Opera welcomed Jessica for two roles in their 2009-2010 inaugural season: Adina in L’elisir d’amore and Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Jessica has had the unique delight of also performing Adina in the 2010 Spring season with Center City Opera Theater, and with outreach at Opera Camerata. Jessica happily found that singing the role of Adina three times in four months made her already cheerful disposition even sunnier!
During her 2009-2010 Apprenticeship at Center City Opera Theater she sang these roles in CCOT’s Opera Encounters series: First Lady, Papagena (Magic Flute), Spirit (Dido and Aeneus), as well as the aforementioned Adina. At Peabody Conservatory she was Die Königin in Die Zauberflöte, Jay/Rooster in The Cunning Little Vixen, and Anna in the Maryland premiere of Dora by Melissa Shiflett.
Not one to back away from new or challenging music, she performed Pierrot Lunaire with the Peabody Camerata, and premiered the role of Patrick Leahy in the nationally recognized Gonzales Cantata which was featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, Fox News, and the Huffington Post, among others. Jessica is proud to continue her affiliation with Gonzales composer Melissa Dunphy and will be premiering a new song cycle by Dunphy in December 2010.
Jessica is a happy resident of Philadelphia who wishes her apartment building and lifestyle allowed for dogs. An enthusiastic cook, she’s been known to bake for fun just to give away the resulting goodies. As a self-proclaimed nerd and voracious reader, she should probably declare an affinity for Jane Austen or William Faulkner, but is instead much more likely to be caught with a comic book in hand–her collection of which is 2,000+ and growing.