Title role in Handel’s Partenope at Oper Frankfurt

What elevates this new production to the realm of the extraordinary are the guests. There is first Jessica Niles in the title role. Intendant Bernd Loebe describes the young singer in the preface to the in-house opera magazine as the "Brenda of the future". He takes measure on Brenda Rae…the parallel is to express that Jessica Niles also has a fresh, clear soprano voice with stunning technique and in particular, flawless coloratura fluency…[but] you don't have to call her "someone of the future", because her voice, her creative skills and her stage presence show that she is the "Jessica Niles of the present", an artistic personality who can no longer be described as an "insider tip" with engagements at the State Operas in Munich and Berlin, the Salzburg Festival and a lively concert activity with renowned conductors. However, since contracts in the opera business are concluded long in advance, the Frankfurt Opera can be congratulated for having hired this fabulous singer in time, before the steep career that has already begun makes her salary rise to the unaffordable.

—Der Opernfreund (translated from original german)