Melissa Errico is a Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, singer, and author. Touring the world with her inimitable thematic concerts, from Singapore to Paris to San Francisco and beyond, she has built a unique niche in the world of theater and jazz – so much so that when Steven Reineke, principal conductor of the New York Pops, introduced her Carnegie Hall debut, he announced that “Melissa Errico is a unique force in the musical life of New York City: a Broadway star, a concert artist, and an author who regularly contributes essays to The New York Times. There’s really no one like her!” The Times itself summed up her appeal simply: “Any chance to hear Melissa Errico sing is a chance worth taking.”

Her concerts in the past two years have included a Paris duet with her frequent singing partner Isabelle Georges, broadcast nationally on RadioFrance, followed by a sold-out cabaret at the historic Le Bal Blomet, and a return national broadcast on Radio France in December 2025. In that same summer, she opened for music icon George Benson at the Montreal Jazz Festival. A writer from London Jazz News wrote that: “Every high note was heroically held, and she got a standing ovation from this audience.”

In spring 2025, Melissa premiered an original concert of the music of World War One on May 7, 2025 in Washington DC in a collaboration with the WW1 Commission and The Doughboy Foundation and won raves. She made her solo concert hall debut at Cadogan Hall in London on July 12, 2025 singing “Sondheim In The City,” to a sold-out house. She has recently performed concerts at The Kravis Center in Palm Beach, The Staller Center, NJPAC, Geffen Hall & much more, including her annual New York City Valentine’s residency at Birdland Jazz Club, which in 2026 returned as “Lost in His Arms,” running February 13-15.

This summer, Melissa made her long-awaited debut at London’s Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club with “The Summer Knows: Melissa Errico Sings Michel Legrand,” on July 12, 2026, joined by Tedd Firth on piano and his hand-picked quartet, to a sold-out room and a standing ovation. Playbill called the performance dazzling, and Errico told the magazine, “Ronnie Scott’s has lived in my imagination for years.”

A uniquely wide-ranging performer, a specialist in the seemingly very different musics of Stephen Sondheim and Michel Legrand, her 2018 album, “Sondheim Sublime” was called by The Wall Street Journal “The best all-Sondheim album ever recorded,” and her 2024 “Sondheim In The City” was dubbed by The New York Times “a New York tour of thrill and heartbreak.” Her November Carnegie Hall debut performance included three Sondheim numbers, including “Losing My Mind” and “Move On.” In January 2026, Melissa was one of a handful of artists — including Judy Collins, Mandy Patinkin, and Renée Fleming — invited by The New York Times to choose a favorite Sondheim song for its feature “5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sondheim.” On the other shore of her expertise, in 2019 she wrote the eulogy for Legrand in The New York Times and was the only American performer asked to appear at the now-legendary two-day memorial concert at Paris’ Le Grand Rex.

In January 2026, Melissa released her new album, “I Can Dream, Can’t I?,” a collection of American Songbook standards drawn from writers including Frank Loesser, Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Rodgers & Hart, Jerome Kern, and Joni Mitchell, again with Tedd Firth at the piano. A vinyl release celebration is planned for October 9 at the Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington, NY, with the Tedd Firth Trio.

First known for her starring roles on Broadway, including My Fair Lady, High Society, Anna Karenina, White Christmas, Dracula, and Les Misérables, Melissa has had a wide-ranging career from television and film to recording. She starred in the CBS show Central Park West and played roles on Blue Bloods, The Knick, and more, as well as Billions on Showtime. In June 2026, she joined an all-star concert presentation of My Fair Lady at Irish Rep, alongside F. Murray Abraham, Shereen Ahmed, Norbert Leo Butz, and Bill Irwin. She has starred in many non-musical roles by Shaw and Oscar Wilde, including Dear Liar in the spring of 2023, playing George Bernard Shaw’s original Eliza Doolittle.

Though a constant in the New York theater, she has become equally known for her music and concert work worldwide, with sold-out concert dates from Ravinia to Caramoor and Wolf Trap — including the 92nd Street Y, Joe’s Pub, Town Hall, and Lincoln Center’s Allen Room. Errico’s history with Sondheim began when he selected her to star as Dot in Sunday In The Park With George at The Kennedy Center, then as Clara in Passion at Classic Stage Company; then in the NY City Center Encores! production of Do I Hear A Waltz? In 2020, she sang “Children and Art” in the Sondheim 90th Birthday Concert Take Me To The World, and was featured on PBS television in a documentary special in which she sang a feminist version of “Finishing The Hat” and joined Adam Gopnik and Raul Esparza to talk Sondheim on Poetry in America. She was also featured in The New York Times tribute to Sondheim in November 2021 as one of the top ten interpreters of his work. Her second Sondheim album, Sondheim In The City, was released on February 16, 2024, and earned her still more praise from the Times as, “one of Sondheim’s deepest-hearted but lightest touch interpreters.”

In addition to Sondheim, nothing in her work has been more constant than her association with Legrand. Having starred in his sole Broadway show, Amour, she went on to collaborate with him on the iconic album Legrand Affair. Warner Music/Ghostlight Records also reissued her symphonic album, which Legrand arranged and conducted, as Legrand Affair (Deluxe Edition).

A student of the great American songbook, Melissa’s album Out Of The Dark: The Film Noir Project was released by Warner Music/Ghostlight Records, and garnered the 2023 Bistro Award for the best Concept Album. The recording was supported by coast-to-coast noir concerts, including Feinstein’s/54 Below, with the Ronnie Scott’s Band in London, and at NYC’s Birdland Jazz Club for a sold-out 10-performance Valentine’s Week residency. Of her Noir project, The Wall Street Journal opined that: “Melissa Errico’s new album, Out of the Dark: The Film Noir Project gives us noir music the way we imagine it…melancholy, bittersweet tales of isolation and loneliness, beauty and betrayal—especially relevant at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

This summer, Melissa also brought back “The Streisand Effect,” her homage to Barbra Streisand, with longtime collaborator Billy Stritch, for engagements at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor (August 17) and her debut at Provincetown Town Hall (August 23).

She is currently working on expanding her collected New York Times essays about a singer’s strange life on the stage and road, gathered under the heading “Scenes From An Acting Life”, into a book — a series that in 2026 has grown to include two new contributions, among them a Metropolitan Diary entry in July. She has three daughters and is married to tennis player and journalist Patrick McEnroe.