Jessica Tassinari is a german mezzo-soprano working internationally in opera and concert contexts.

Recent engagements include Die große Wörterfabrik at Oper Frankfurt, as well as productions such as Elektra and world premieres at Staatstheater Wiesbaden. She has performed the title role in Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face and appears regularly in both operatic and symphonic repertoire.

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, Patrick Lange and Holger Reinhardt. She is a prizewinner of the Omaggio a Maria Callas Competition in Città di Brescia and reached the final rounds of the Tenor Viñas Competition.

She studied in Freiburg im Brsg., Frankfurt and pursued further training at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, the Hochschule der Künste Bern and the Accademia di Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti”. Her teachers include Brigitte Fassbaender, Helmut Deutsch, Sherman Lowe, Vivica Genaux, Christa Ludwig, Angela Nick and Thomas Heyer; she currently works with Tanja Ariane Baumgartner.

Alongside her operatic work, she is engaged in trans-cultural artistic projects as a member of the Qantara Trio. She is also active in vocal pedagogy and research-based practice, integrating bel canto-based vocal principles with stylistic and functional training approaches and research on optimal performance states for singers.

She is the founder and artistic director of the Pauline Viardot Association Baden-Baden e.V., dedicated to artistic research, performance and the preservation of Pauline Viardot’s musical legacy.