LAURA WILDE

(UNITED STATES)

SOPRANO

Soprano Laura Wilde, making her HGO debut, is a 2019 Richard Tucker Foundation career grant recipient. Her 2022-23 season includes a return to the Metropolitan Opera to sing Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes; a debut of the role of Floria Tosca at Arizona Opera and Opera Theatre of St. Louis; and a cover role as The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera. Highlights of recent seasons include the title role in Jenůfa with the Santa Fe Opera and English National Opera; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Agathe at Staatstheater Stuttgart; the title role in Káťa Kabanová with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Scottish Opera; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte with Washington National Opera; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in a film produced by Seattle Opera; the Fifth Maid in Elektra at the Opéra national de Paris; Freia, Ortlinde, and the cover of Sieglinde in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, respectively, part of David Pountney’s new Ring cycle at Lyric Opera of Chicago; Ortlinde for Act III of Die Walküre at the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gretel at the Edinburgh Festival and Melbourne Symphony; Laura in Der Ring des Polykrates at The Dallas Opera; Micaëla in Carmen with Nashville Opera; Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Jane Withersteen in the world premiere of Craig Bohmler’s Riders of the Purple Sage and Mamah Cheney in the world premiere of Daron Hagen’s Shining Brow, both at Arizona Opera; Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with the Berkshire Opera Festival; Freia and the Foreign Princess in Rusalka with Des Moines Metro Opera; and the cover role of Eva in Die Meistersinger with the Metropolitan Opera. Wilde’s numerous awards and honors include a 2018 Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation Award from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, a 2017 Sullivan Grant, and a 2016 Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.