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date = "2015-04-12T21:42:00-04:00"
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Soprano Tamara Wilson is quickly gaining international recognition for her interpretations of Verdi, Mozart, Strauss and Wagner. She is the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Richard Tucker Award, an annual prize conferred by the Richard Tucker Music Foundation given to a rising American opera singer on the "threshold of an major international career."

Other recent honors include a 2016 Olivier Award nomination and receipt of the 'Revelation Prize' by the Argentine Musical Critics Association. Ms. Wilson is also a Grand Prize Winner of the Annual Francisco Viñas Competition held at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain.

Tamara's 2019-20 season includes performances with the Canadian Opera Company, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt and The Santa Fe Opera. In concert, she will sing Beethoven's _Symmphony No. 9_ in a special Christmas performance and television broadcast with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and debut the role of Isolde with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Opera performance highlights in Tamara Wilson's 2018-19 season included a return to the Metropolitan Opera as the title role in _Aida_, the role of Leonora in _Il Trovatore_ at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Desdemona in _Otello_ at the Canadian Opera Company, the title role in _Ariadne auf Naxos_ at Teatro alla Scala, and Chrysothemis in _Elektra_ at Opernhaus Zurich. In concert Ms. Wilson presented Mahler's _Symphony No. 8_ at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and at the Edinburgh International Festival, as well as with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She also sang Bruckner's _Te Deum_ at Teatro alla Scala, and Ariadne in _Ariadne auf Naxos_ with the Cleveland Orchestra. This summer she will perform her signaure role of Aida at Arena di Verona followed by a special guest performance at the Santa Fe Opera's summer Gala and a recital at the Song Source Festival.

Tamara Wilson opened the the 2017-18 season as the title role in _Aida_ at the Washington National Opera in a production by Francesca Zambello. She then returned to her home company of Houston Grand Opera for her role debut as Chrysothemis in _Elektra_. She also made her New York Philharmonic debut in Bernstein’s _Kaddish Symphony (Symphony No. 3)_ with Leonard Slatkin in celebration of Bernstein's Centennial.

Ms. Wilson made her acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut in _Aida_ and London debut in Calixto Bieto’s new production of _La forza del destino_ at the English National Opera, for which she received an Olivier Award nomination. She also inaugurated the new opera house in Kyoto, Japan with Seiji Ozawa as Rosalinde in _Die Fledermaus_.

She was heard at Oper Frankfurt for her first performances as the Empress in _Die Frau ohne Schatten_ conducted by Sebastian Weigle and subsequently released by Oehms Classics. She recently debuted at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Opernhaus Zürich conducted by Fabio Luisi, both as Elisabetta di Valois in _Don Carlo_. She debuted at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Amelia in _Un ballo in maschera_, triumphed in Act 3 of _Die Walküre_ as Brünnhilde with Mark Wiggleworth and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at Royal Albert Hall, and debuted with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev in Act 3 of _Die Walküre_ as Sieglinde.

A noted interpreter of Verdi roles, she has been seen as Elisabeth de Valois in the five-act French _Don Carlos_ (Houston Grand Opera); Amelia in _Un ballo in maschera_ (Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Teatre Principal de Maó in Menorca); Elvira in _Ernani_ (Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse); Elisabetta in _Don Carlo_ (Bayerische Staatsoper, Zurich Oper, and Oper Frankfurt); Lucrezia Contarini in _I due Foscari_ (Théâtre du Capitole, Teatro Municipal de Santiago and Netherlands Radio Orchestra); Leonora in _Il trovatore_ (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Houston Grand Opera, Théâtre du Capitole under Daniel Oren and Palma de Mallorca); Desdemona in _Otello_ (Cincinnati Symphony and James Conlon); Alice Ford in _Falstaff_ (Washington National Opera debut); Amelia Grimaldi in _Simon Boccanegra_ (Canadian Opera Company); the title role in _Aida_ (Opera Australia, Teatro de la Maestranza, and Teatro Municipal de Santiago); Marchesa del Poggio in _Un giorno di regno_ (Wolf Trap Opera); and Gulnara in _Il corsaro_ (Washington Concert Opera). Other notable performances include her debut in _Norma_ at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Rosalinde in _Die Fledermaus_ at the Canadian Opera Company; her German debut at Oper Frankfurt in concert performances of Wagner’s early opera _Die Feen_ as Ada under Sebastian Weigle; Elettra in _Idomeneo_ under Harry Bicket at the Canadian Opera Company and under James Conlon at the Ravinia Festival; Donna Anna in _Don Giovanni_ under James Conlon and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as well as with Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony.

On the concert stage, Ms. Wilson debuted with the Cleveland Orchestra in Beethoven’s _Symphony No. 9_ under Franz Welser-Möst, the National Symphony in Mendelssohn’s _Symphony No. 2_ (“Lobgesang”) with Matthew Halls and with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Verdi’s _Messa da Requiem_ conducted by Marin Alsop at the BBC Proms, which was recorded for commercial release.