"Jessica Trainor employed [her] passionate, seductive [voice] to great effect in dulcet cantabile lines." The San Diego Story on Opera NEO's Armide
ARTIST BIO
Mezzo-Soprano Jessica Trainor Tasucu is thrilled to return to in-person performing for her 2021-2022 season. She begins with a role debut as Flora in La traviata with MassOpera, and a company and role debut with White Snake Projects in a workshop of A Braided Light. Jessica is also pleased to join the chorus roster of Boston Lyric Opera in their performance of Cavalleria Rusticana. Concert appearances will include Alto Soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Assabet Valley Mastersingers.
Jessica’s 2019-2020 season included a company and role debut with Boston Opera Collaborative as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, the online world premiere of Happy – a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and bass-baritone by Felix Jarrar, a company and role debut with Opera del West as Prince Charmant in Cendrillon, the role of Common Rose and Fox and Pilot cover in The Little Prince (Rachel Portman) with NEMPAC Opera Project, and Alto Soloist for Handel’s Messiah at the Immaculate Conception Church in Easton, MA. She was a professional ensemble member with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra for Verdi’s Aida, Dan Shore’s Freedom Ride with Chicago Opera Theater, in conjunction with MassOpera, and in several operas with Odyssey Opera.
Additional 2019 concert appearances included Jessica's Beethoven Symphony No. 9 solo debut with The Harvard Musical Association, and selections from Schubert's Winterreise and Schumann's Dichterliebe in recital with critically acclaimed fortepianist, Sylvia Berry.
In 2018, Jessica performed with Promenade Opera Project as Dorothée in Cendrillon (Massenet). She also covered Frauenliebe in Dan Shore's The Beautiful Bridegroom with MassOpera. Jessica performed in recital as a featured artist in the Longwood Towers Concert Series. Jessica closed out 2018 covering Prince Orlofsky in a New Year's Eve performance of Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss) with VOX New England.
Jessica spent Summer 2017 with Opera NEO as a Studio Artist. She played the roles of Mélisse and Coryphe, and covered the role of Sidonie in Armide (Gluck). On her performance of Mélisse, The San Diego Story said Jessica, "employed [her] passionate, seductive [voice] to great effect in dulcet cantabile lines."
In May 2017, Jessica brought to life the role of Schaunard in MassOpera's production of La Femme Bohème - an all-female version of Puccini's La Bohème. On her performance, The Boston Music Intelligencer said that she "completed Mimi and Rudolfo's [sic] circle with personable ease and inspired singing all around". In MassOpera's 2016 season, Jessica sang in the featured quartet (which went on to be nominated for an Arts Impulse Award) and covered the role of Alma March in Mark Adamo's Little Women.
In July 2016, she was the resident vocal apprentice at Vermont Music and Arts Center. Further musical training includes the OperaWorks Winter Intensive and a summer with Atlantic Music Festival.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jessica currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia.