Erica Jackson, mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano Erica Jackson is a captivating performer with an exciting, lush voice and intense, authentic expression. Most recently, she sang Second Lady in The Magic Flute with Chicago Summer Opera. In the summer of 2021, she was involved in Spotlight on Opera’s 15th anniversary season, where she performed Momma Bear in Goldie B. Locks and the Three Singing Bears, Magda Sorel in excerpts from The Consul, and music by Satie, Purcell realized by Britten, and Menotti in the festival’s concert series. She sang the finale of Anna Bolena in a February 2021 episode of North Carolina Opera’s Opera About Town Online series. 

Upcoming performances include Opera About Town and Flora in La traviata, both with North Carolina Opera.

Erica is a native of the Kansas City area, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Music degree from William Jewell College and a Master of Music in Voice degree from the University of Missouri–Columbia. In the Raleigh, North Carolina area, she has worked with North Carolina Opera, North Carolina Master Chorale, and Concert Singers of Cary, in addition to her work at Chicago Summer Opera, Spotlight on Opera, Miami Classical Music Festival and Oberlin in Italy. Previous operatic credits include Eliza in Dark Sisters, Olivia in Cold Mountain, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and Clorinda in La Cenerentola. She also shines as a concert and recital singer and has recently performed soprano solos in Messiah Part I and excerpts of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. 

Erica lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, her cats Will and Grace, and a pit mix named Dio who hasn’t figured out that the cats aren’t looking for friends.