MELISSA SONDHI | Feinstein's at Hotel Carmichael
Concerts
DOORS OPEN at 5:30 PM and SHOW STARTS at 7:30 PM
$25 FOOD and BEVERAGE Minimum per guest.
Cabaret Seating
- All seats at the table are for sale. Buying one seat does NOT secure the table.
Cabaret Service
- It is recommended that you arrive early if you wish to have dinner, as dinner is served from 5:30pm - 7:30pm, once the show has begun options are limited to drinks and dessert.
MELLISA SONDHI,
Soprano
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
), her "warm and evocative" voice (
Cordell Reports
), her "verve and swagger" (
Aisle Seat Review)
, and her "effortless performance" and "warm and creamy tone" (
Opera Tattler
), Indian-American soprano Melissa Sondhi is an opera singer on the rise.
In the 2024-2025 season, Melissa will be returning to Opera San José for her second season as the inaugural Wadhwani Resident Artist, debuting the role of Pamina in
Die Zauberflöte
and singing the role of Musetta in
La bohème
. She will also be returning to Pocket Opera to debut the role of Mariane in
Tartuffe.
In the 2023-2024 season, Melissa was the first ever inaugural Wadhwani Resident Artist, debuting the roles of Juliette in
Roméo et Juliette,
Gilda in
Rigoletto
, and covering the role of Rosalba in
Florencia en el Amazonas
. She also sang the role of Musetta in
La bohème
with Pocket Opera and Cinnabar Theater. In the 2022-2023 season, she made her San Francisco Opera Guild debut singing the role of Musetta in
La bohème
, and returned to Opera San Jose to sing the role of Barbarina in
Le nozze di Figaro.
She covered the roles of Susanna in
Le nozze di Figaro
and Nannetta in
Falstaff
as well. She also returned to Pocket Opera to sing the role of Adele in their production of
Die Fledermaus.
In the 2021-2022 season, Melissa sang the role of Iza in
The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein
with Pocket Opera, and also made her principle role debut with Opera San Jose singing First Witch in
Dido and Aeneas
. In the 2020-2021 season, she sang the role of Angelina in Lyric Theatre of San José's production of
Trial by Jury
. In the 2019-2020 season, she covered the roles of Ida in Opera San Jose's productions of
Die Fledermaus
and the Dew Fairy in
Hansel and Gretel
.
She also performed the roles of Le feu and Le rossignol in
L’enfant et les sortilèges
with Air Opera Collective. In the 2018-2019 season, she was seen as Giannetta in
The Elixir of Love
with Pocket Opera, Edith in
The Pirates of Penzance
, and Fiametta in
The Gondoliers
with Lamplighters Music Theatre.
In 2025, Melissa was a semifinalist in the prestigious Loren L. Zachary competition, and in 2023, she won first place in the Adult Classical Voice category at the Los Angeles Semifinals of the Music International Grand Prix competition. In 2021, Melissa was a semifinalist in the Orpheus Vocal Competition, and in 2017, she was a finalist at the East Bay Opera League’s Young Artists Scholarship Awards Competition.
Melissa holds a BM from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance (2015), and an MM from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (2017).
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