Melissa Sondhi

Praised for her “charm” (San Francisco Chronicle-Datebook), for “time and again sing(ing) with a voice that is nothing short of wowing” and “delicate and golden” (Theatre Eddys), her “shimmering, agile soprano” and “remarkable dynamic range” (Operaville), for her “warm and evocative” voice (Cordell Reports), and her “effortless performance” (Opera Tattler), Indian-American soprano Melissa Sondhi is an opera singer on the rise. Over the past several years, Melissa has performed with various opera companies with whom she has made several exciting role debuts, including Opera San José, San Francisco Opera Guild, Pocket Opera, and Cinnabar Theatre, to name a few. In the 2023-2024 season, she debuted the roles of Juliette in Roméo et Juliette and Gilda in Rigoletto at Opera San José, and covered the role of Rosalba in Florencia en el Amazonas as well. She also sang the role of Musetta in Pocket Opera and Cinnabar Theatre’s collaborative production of La bohème, and looks forward to revisiting the role with Opera San José in the upcoming 2024-2025 season, as well as debuting the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. Other role engagements include Adele in Die Fledermaus, Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore, and Le feu in L’enfant et les sortilèges. In 2023, Melissa won first place in the Adult Classical Voice category at the Los Angeles Semifinals of the Music International Grand Prix competition, and was also a semifinalist in the Orpheus Vocal Competition in 2017.