GRAMMY® Award-winning soprano Tamara Wilson continues to garner international acclaim for her interpretations of Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, and Wagner. A recipient of the prestigious Richard Tucker Award, she has also received an Olivier Award nomination and the Grand Prize of the Francisco Viñas International Singing Competition at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Highlights of Tamara’s 26/27 season include her return to the Opéra national de Paris for complete cycles of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, singing Brünnhilde in Die Walküre, Siegfried, and, in a role debut, Götterdämmerung. She also returns to Houston Grand Opera for Der Rosenkavalier (Die Feldmarschallin Fürstin Werdenberg) and San Francisco Opera for Die Walküre (Brünnhilde). On the concert stage, she returns to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. She also joins the faculty of the Verbier Festival Academy’s Atelier Lyrique, working with its emerging professional singers.
Last season, Tamara made debuts with Staatstheater Darmstadt in Britten’s War Requiem, the Houston Symphony in Tristan und Isolde, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo in selections from Götterdämmerung, and returned to The Cleveland Orchestra for War Requiem.
A leading interpreter of the dramatic soprano repertoire, Wilson has appeared at many of the world’s foremost opera houses, including The Metropolitan Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Teatro alla Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Dutch National Opera, English National Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera Company, The Santa Fe Opera, Arena di Verona, Washington National Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro de la Maestranza, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Opera Australia, Opéra National de Lyon, Théâtre du Capitole, and Teatro La Fenice.
Her repertoire encompasses many of opera’s most demanding roles, including Die Walküre (Brünnhilde), Siegfried (Brünnhilde), Götterdämmerung (Brünnhilde), Turandot (title role), Lohengrin (Ortrud), Tosca (title role), Tristan und Isolde (Isolde), Fidelio (Leonore), Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne), Otello (Desdemona), Aida (title role), Il trovatore (Leonora), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Elektra (Chrysothemis), La forza del destino (Leonora), Die Frau ohne Schatten (Die Kaiserin), Don Carlo (Elisabetta), Norma (title role), and Idomeneo (Elettra).
Wilson has collaborated with many of the world’s foremost conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Seiji Ozawa, Gustavo Dudamel, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Marin Alsop, Carlo Rizzi, Lorenzo Viotti, Franz Welser-Möst, Edo de Waart, James Conlon, Johannes Debus, Enrique Mazzola, Harry Bicket, Eun Sun Kim, James Gaffigan, Leonard Slatkin, Mark Wigglesworth, Daniel Oren, Sebastian Weigle, and Matthew Halls. Her orchestral engagements include appearances with The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and at the BBC Proms, in repertoire including Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2, and Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3, Kaddish.
In recital, Wilson frequently collaborates with pianist Warren Jones and has appeared at Oper Frankfurt, Source Song Festival, Performance Santa Fe, and the Cleveland Art Song Festival. A champion of new music, she commissioned and recorded Evan L. Snyder’s Tiffany’s Spellbook, a modular song cycle designed to allow performers to select and order its individual “spells” for each performance. The recording is available on Lexicon Classics. Her discography also includes Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten, conducted by Sebastian Weigle and released by Oehms Classics.
2026-2027
