Jessica Blomberg

• Orpheus in the Underworld (Diana) at College Light Opera Company
• L'Orfeo (Eurydice) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Black Square (on- stage chorus) Academic World Premiere at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• The Magic Flute (Papagena) at Northwestern University Intensive Vocal Performance Seminar
• A Little Night Music (Mala, Mrs. Anderssen & Mrs. Nordstrom Cover) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Trial by Jury (Bridesmaid) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• The Turn of the Screw (Flora cover) at Chicago Summer Opera
• Carmen (Frasquita) at Northwestern University Intensive Vocal Performance Seminar
• Die Fledermaus (Chorus/Sally cover) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Thomas J. Smith Scholarship In Music 2025 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Elizabeth Meier Frauenhoffer Memorial Award 2024-25 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Voice Achievement Award 2021-22 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jessica Blomberg is a soprano with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied with Professors Dawn Harris, Sarah Wigley, Nathan Gunn, Dr. Julie Gunn, and Michael Tilley. Her performance credits with Lyric Theatre @ Illinois include Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Eurydice), the academic world premiere of Black Square by Demutsky, Konyukhov, and Maslova (Onstage Chorus), a workshop presentation of MET: The Musical by Hilliard and Boresi (Ensemble), 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). In previous summers she has sung with Chicago Summer Opera as the Flora cover in The Turn of the Screw by Britten and at Northwestern University where she was Frasquita in Carmen and Papagena in The Magic Flute. She most recently spent a summer with College Light Opera Company where she gained many credits in both musical theatre and light opera, most notably as the goddess Diana in Offenbach's Orpheus and the Underworld. She has been a member of UIUC’s Black Chorus and Women’s Glee Club. In her hometown of Farina, Illinois, she enjoys serving as a church pianist.