During the 2025-26 season, Butler Studio alumna Erin Wagner performs the role of Hansel in Family Day for Hansel and Gretel. Elsewhere during the season, she will return to Brooklyn Arts to sing Harawi. Previously at HGO, Wagner performed as Flower Maiden/Voice from Above in Parsifal (2024); Kate Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly (2024); Sister Margaretta in The Sound of Music (2024); Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro (2023); and Page of Herodias in Salome (2023). She made her HGO mainstage debut in the role of Jack for the final performance of The Wreckers (2022). During the 2024-25 season, Wagner joined Wolf Trap Opera as a 2024 Filene Artist to perform the roles of Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Blanche de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Mércèdes in Carmen. She debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Unborn Voice 3 and covered Servant 2 in Die Frau ohne Schatten; performed with Louisville Orchestra as Der Trommler in Der Kaiser von Atlantis; performed with Maryland Symphony in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony; premiered David Ludwig’s arrangements of Mélodies by Guillaume de Machaut with Brooklyn Art Song Society; and performed in Bruckner’s Te Deum with Brazos Valley Symphony. Wagner is the first prize winner in the Gerda Lissner Foundation for the 2024 Lieder/Song Vocal Competition. She is also a winner of the 2021 Naumburg Foundation International Vocal Competition, and with pianist and composer Shawn Chang, the 2021 Juilliard Vocal Arts Honors Recital. Wagner was a 2021 Renée Fleming Artist at Aspen Music Festival, where she performed the roles of Second Lady in The Magic Flute and Unulfo in Rodelinda; sang in scenes from Così fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito, and Semele; and premiered David Clay Mettens’s The Sustaining Air. She worked with Fleming for Carnegie Hall’s 2021 SongStudio and received second prize in the 2021 Saengerbund Awards. She has performed with Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois at Caramoor and with Brian Zeger at Juilliard Songfest.