This season, soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Freia, Ortlinde, and Gutrune in the complete
Ring Cycle, and as Emma in
Khovanshchina. She also appears in concert with the Boston Conservatory in Sanders Theater. Ms. Harmer recently made her debuts at the Glimmerglass Opera as Glauce in
Medea and at the Montreal Symphony as Freia in concert performances of
Das Rheingold with Kent Nagano.
A graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ms. Harmer has appeared in their productions of
Le nozze di Figaro,
War and Peace, Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Die Agyptische Helena, and
Jenufa. She also appeared in the Met’s HD broadcasts of
Das Rheingold and
The Magic Flute, the latter which was subsequently released on DVD on the Met’s own label. Other recent opera engagements have included her debut at the San Francisco Opera in
Die Walküre, Wanda in
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein and Vitellia in
La Clemenza di Tito at Opera Boston, Adalgisa in
Norma at the Palm Beach Opera, and Mimi in
La Bohéme at the Utah Opera Festival. ...
read full bioThis season, soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Freia, Ortlinde, and Gutrune in the complete
Ring Cycle, and as Emma in
Khovanshchina. She also appears in concert with the Boston Conservatory in Sanders Theater. Ms. Harmer recently made her debuts at the Glimmerglass Opera as Glauce in
Medea and at the Montreal Symphony as Freia in concert performances of
Das Rheingold with Kent Nagano.
A graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ms. Harmer has appeared in their productions of
Le nozze di Figaro,
War and Peace, Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Die Agyptische Helena, and
Jenufa. She also appeared in the Met’s HD broadcasts of
Das Rheingold and
The Magic Flute, the latter which was subsequently released on DVD on the Met’s own label. Other recent opera engagements have included her debut at the San Francisco Opera in
Die Walküre, Wanda in
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein and Vitellia in
La Clemenza di Tito at Opera Boston, Adalgisa in
Norma at the Palm Beach Opera, and Mimi in
La Bohéme at the Utah Opera Festival.
In concert, Ms. Harmer has appeared as a soloist at the Schubert Festival with The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and sang at Lincoln Center’s Tribute to Renata Tebaldi. In 2005, she made her New York recital debut under the auspices of The Marilyn Horne Foundation, and was presented by the George London Foundation in a recital with Ben Heppner at the Morgan Library.
Born in Roseville, California, Ms. Harmer graduated with a Bachelor's degree from The Boston Conservatory and attended the Music of Academy of the West. She was also a member of the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theater of St Louis, and was one of nine singers invited to study at The Music Academy in Villecroze, France. She was recently named a winner of a 2010 Richard Tucker Grant. Her many other awards include the 2007 Jensen Award, the Teatro alla Scala Award at the 2007 Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, first place at the Palm Beach Opera Competition, the 2005 winner of the George London/Leonie Rysanek Award, and an award from The Marilyn Horne Foundation.
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