Amber Wagner

American soprano Amber Wagner has been featured in Opera News as one of twenty-five artists poised to break out and become a major force in classical music in the coming decade. In a recent review of Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Times described her as possessing a “powerful, gleaming and richly expressive voice [which] was ideal for the music.”

Amber Wagner’s 2018-2019 season begins with a return to the Metropolitan Opera, for her role debut as Giorgetta in Il Trittico, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. She returns to Opera Australia to sing the title role in Puccini’s Turandot, and later reprises the role of Sieglinde in Die Walküre with Oper Frankfurt, conducted by Sebastian Weigle.

Symphonic highlights include Verdi’s Requiem with the Melbourne Symphony and Toronto Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Asher Fisch, L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice conducted by Philippe Auguin, Houston Symphony conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Taipei Symphony, Pacific Chorale, Kansas City Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Colorado Symphony, and Grant Park Music Festival. Ms. Wagner performed Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, Spokane Symphony, and Oregon Symphony; a concert of Strauss songs with L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice; Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Aspen Music Festival conducted by Robert Spano; Sieglinde in Act 1 in concert performances of Die Walküre with the Colorado Symphony; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Grant Park Music Festival and Russian National Orchestra at the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, and Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Oregon Symphony.