Meredith Wohlgemuth, soprano, is a 2023 Grand Prize Winner of The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition and a current member of the Staatsoper Hannover Ensemble.
In the 2024/25 season, she returns to Staatsoper Hannover for Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie), Satyagraha (Ms. Schlesin), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tytania), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Giulietta), and Hänsel und Gretel (Gretel). In 2025/26 she debuts with Seattle Opera in Carmen (Frasquita), joins the roster of The Metropolitan Opera to cover in La fille du regiment (Marie), and makes her debut at Tiroler Festspiele Erl in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Asher Fisch.
In the 2023/24 season, Meredith made her European debut with six productions at Staatsoper Hannover, performing in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Giulietta), L’elisir d’amore (Adina), Hänsel und Gretel (Gretel), Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice), Lear by Aribert Reimann (Cordelia), and Parsifal (Blumenmädchen).
Additional operatic highlights include appearances at the Aspen Music Festival as a Renée Fleming Artist in Idomeneo (Ilia), the Tanglewood Music Festival for the U.S. premiere of George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence (Witness 1), Opera Naples in La traviata (Anina), Juilliard Opera in Così fan tutte (Despina) and Dido and Aeneas (Belinda), and the Chautauqua Institution in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tytania) and Hänsel und Gretel (Gretel).
On the concert stage, Meredith has performed with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie in Bruckner’s Te Deum under Pietari Inkinen, with Juilliard415 in Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno (Tirsi) at Alice Tully Hall, and with the Cecilia Chorus of New York at Carnegie Hall under Mark Shapiro.
A passionate interpreter of art song and new music, Meredith and collaborative pianist Jinhee Park were First Prize winners of both the 2023 Internationaler Schubert LiedDuo-Wettbewerb in Dortmund and the 2022 Concours musical international de Montréal. Recent recital and residency highlights include the Schubertíada Lied series in Barcelona, the 2023 Renée Fleming SongStudio, 21c Liederabend at National Sawdust, and performances at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts and Merkin Hall as a Schwab Vocal Rising Star with the New York Festival of Song under Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois.
Meredith holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Arts from The Juilliard School (2020) and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance from Concordia University, Nebraska (2018).
2024-2025
