This season at HGO, Grammy Award-winning artist Tamara Wilson, a Butler Studio alumna, performs the role of Elisabeth in Tannhäuser. Previously for the company, she performed 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). Highlights of her 2023-24 season included debuts with Opéra national de Paris for Turandot and a new Peter Sellars production of Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda and Opéra National de Lyon for concert performances of Adriana Lecouvreur. Additional performances included a return to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for The Flying Dutchman. Engagements during the 2024-25 season include Nabucco with the Canadian Opera Company, Macbeth with Oper Frankfurt, and Die Walküre with The Santa Fe Opera. Career highlights include Turandot, Lohengrin, Tosca, Ernani, Tristan und Isolde, Fidelio, Ariadne auf Naxos, Otello, Un ballo in maschera, Don Carlo, Don Carlos, Aida, Il trovatore, Elektra, La forza del destino, Die Fledermaus, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Die Feen, I due Foscari, Falstaff, Un giorno di regno, Simon Boccanegra, Idomeneo, The Marriage Figaro, Don Giovanni, Il corsaro, and Norma. She regularly appears on the stages of the world’s leading opera houses including The Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro La Fenice, The 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.