Biography

Grammy Award-winning soprano Tamara Wilson is the recipient of the prestigious Richard Tucker Award. Other recent honors include an Olivier Award nomination and Grand Prize in the annual Francisco Viñas Competition held at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain.

2025–26 season highlights include a debut with Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Die Frau ohne Schatten and a return to the Opéra national de Paris for new productions of Die Walküre and Siegfried. On the concert stage, she makes debut appearances with Staatstheater Darmstadt (War Requiem), Houston Symphony (Tristan und Isolde), and NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo (selections from Götterdämmerung), and returns to The Cleveland Orchestra (War Requiem).

Operatic highlights of Wilson’s career include Die Walküre, Turandot, Lohengrin, Tosca, Ernani, Tristan undIsolde, Fidelio, Ariadne auf Naxos, Otello, Un ballo in Maschera, Don Carlo, Don Carlos, Aida, Il trovatore, Macbeth, Elektra, La forza del destino, Die Fledermaus, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Die Feen, I due Foscari, Falstaff, Un giorno di regno, Simon Boccanegra, Idomeneo, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Il corsaro, La clemeza di Tito, and Norma.

She regularly appears on the stages of the world’s leading opera houses including The Metropolitan Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Los Angeles Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro La Fenice, The Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand 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, Opéra National de Lyon, and Théâtre du Capitole.

Wilson frequently partners with Warren Jones and has given recitals at Oper Frankfurt, Source Song Festival, Performance Santa Fe, and Cleveland Art Song Festival. She recorded a duet orchestral concert with Russell Braun at the Canadian Opera Company.

As a champion of new music, she commissioned and recorded Tiffany’s Spellbook by Evan L. Snyder, available on Lexicon Classics and popular streaming platforms. Additional recordings include Die Frau ohne Schatten conducted by Sebastian Weigle and released by Oehms Classics.