Virginia Hesse

Praised for her agile sound and lively stage presence, lyric coloratura soprano Virginia Hesse is impressing audiences with her dynamic and fiery singing. Virginia was the 2018 winner of the Canto Voice Competition with Opera Cultura in San Jose, California. She recently debuted the role of Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance with Opera Ithaca and is delighted to debut with Sugar Creek Opera in this role. Virginia returned to Charlottesville Opera to debut in Camelot as Nimue, and to Oratorio Society of Richmond in the title role of Handel’s Susanna in March.