Jessica Blomberg

Jessica Blomberg is a soprano with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She sang most recently with Opera Colorado as a chorister in their production of Verdi’s Macbeth. She has credits with College Light Opera Company, most notably in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld (Diana), Guys & Dolls (Gen. Cartwright), and Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore (Zorah).

She also performed in staged readings of new works The King’s Critique and Silk with ArtLab Productions from New York. Her academic credits include Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Euridice), the academic world premiere of Black Square by Demutsky, Konyukhov, and Maslova (Onstage Chorus), Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss II (Ensemble/Sally cover), Trial by Jury by Gilbert & Sullivan (Bridesmaid), and A Little Night Music by Sondheim (Mala/Liebeslieder cover). She has sung with Chicago Summer Opera in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw (Flora cover) and at Northwestern University in Carmen (Frasquita) and The Magic Flute (Papagena).

She won first place at the 2025 NATS Central Region Conference in the Musical Theatre Advanced category and was a semifinalist in the 2025 CS Music Competition in the Musical Theatre University/Pre-Professional category. At UIUC she won the Thomas J. Smith Competition in Music, receiving a full tuition scholarship. She also served as a church pianist in her hometown of Farina, IL.