Jessica Rivera

Soprano Jessica Rivera graduated from Pepperdine University in 1996 and pursued graduate studies at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, receiving her master's degree in 1998. She has become a specialist in contemporary opera and vocal music, singing in performances of major works by John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, Jonathan Leshnoff, Deborah Drattell, Nico Muhly, John Rutter, John Harbison, Christopher Theofanidis, Roberto Sierra, and Gabriela Lena Frank. Rivera has performed with the Los Angeles Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, ...