ARTIST AVATAR
Soprano
Tamara Wilson
United States

About

Biography

During HGO's 2026-27 season, GRAMMY Award-winning artist Tamara Wilson, a Butler Studio alumna, performs as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. Previously for the company, she performed as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser (2025), the title roles in Tosca (2023), Turandot (2022) and Aida (2020); Chrysothemis in Elektra (2018), Leonora in Il trovatore (2013); Elisabeth de Valois in the five-act French Don Carlos (2012); Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw (2010); Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio (2008); and Amelia in A Masked Ball (2007). Elsewhere during the 2026-27 season, she performs in Il trovatore, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung at Opéra national de Paris. In the 2025-26 season, she returned to the Opéra national de Paris for new productions of Die Walküre and Siegfried. Engagements during the 2024-25 season included Die Walküre with The Santa Fe Opera and La clemenza di Tito with Washington Concert Opera. Other career highlights include Lohengrin, Ernani, Tristan and Isolde, Fidelio, Ariadne auf Naxos, Otello, DonCarlo, La forza del destino,Die Fledermaus, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Die Feen, I due Foscari, Falstaff, Un giorno di regno, SimonBoccanegra, Idomeneo, The Marriage Figaro, Don Giovanni, Il corsaro, and Norma. She regularly appears on the stages of the world’s leading opera houses including theMetropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro La Fenice, Santa Fe Opera, Dutch National Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Teatro alla Scala, Arena di Verona, Washington National Opera, English National Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro de la Maestranza, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Opera Australia, and Théâtre du Capitole. Wilson is the recipient of the prestigious Richard Tucker Award, an Olivier Award nomination, first prize in HGO’s 2005 McCollum Competition Concert of Arias, and the Grand Prize in the annual Francisco Viñas Competition held at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.  

HGO Repertoire

Cupid: THE CORONATION OF POPPEA 2005-06 

Countess Almaviva: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO 2005-06 (Alt. Cast and Miller Outdoor Theatre) 

Bubikopf: DER KAISER VON ATLANTIS 2006-07 

Clorinda: CENERENTOLA (CINDERELLA) 2006-07 

Priestess: AIDA 2006-07 

Pasek’s Wife: THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXON 2006-07 

Amelia: A MASKED BALL 2007-08 

Konstanze: THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO 2007-08 

Miss Jessel: THE TURN OF THE SCREW 2009-10 

Elisabeth de Valois: DON CARLOS 2011-12 

Leonora: IL TROVATORE 2012-13 

Chrysothemis: ELEKTRA 2017-18 

Aida: AIDA 2019-20 

CULLEN LIVE RECITAL 2020-21 (Digital) 

Turandot: TURANDOT 2021-22 

Tosca: TOSCA 2022-23

Elisabeth: TANNHÄUSER 2024-25