This season, soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer appears as Freia in Das Rheingold and Ortlinde in Die Walküre in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of the Ring Cycle. She also returns to the Met as First Lady in The Magic Flute. A graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, she 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 broadcast of The Magic Flute, 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 bio
This season, soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer appears as Freia in Das Rheingold and Ortlinde in Die Walküre in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of the Ring Cycle. She also returns to the Met as First Lady in The Magic Flute. A graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, she 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 broadcast of The Magic Flute, 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. This season she will be presented in recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall as part of Marilyn Horne’s The Song Continues series.
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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