SINGERS 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Tamara Wapinsky, soprano, second-year Adler Fellow, made her War Memorial Opera House debut as Freia in Das Rheingold this past June. She also appeared as Musetta in San Francisco Opera’s past production of La Bohème. The Pennsylvania native made her Company debut as The Water in The Little Prince in May of this year and created the role of Tallulah Carter in Thomas Pasatieri’s The Hotel Casablanca with the 2007 Merola Opera Program. As an apprentice artist at Chautauqua Opera, she sang the role of Nella in Gianni Schicchi. Her repertoire includes the title roles of Suor Angelica, Madama Butterfly, and Ariadne auf Naxos plus the role of Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, Beatrice Carbone in A View from the Bridge, Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Folia in Noam Sivan’s The Fruits of Folia. Ms. Wapinsky is a past winner of the Giulio Gari Competition, the Licia Albanese Puccini Competition, and the Opera Index Competition, and she received a Joan Kreitzer Snyder Award at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Other engagements include The Lover in Il Tabarro and The First Tourière in Suor Angelica during the 2009–10 San Francisco Opera season.