Soprano Amber Wagner, a native of California, was a winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finals, which were the subject of the acclaimed 2009 documentary film The Audition. A member of the Patrick G. and Shirley Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2007 to 2010, Miss Wagner made her debut with Lyric Opera as an Unborn Child in Die Frau ohne Schatten and performed in the student matinees of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. During the 2008-2009 season, she appeared in the role of Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and understudied the roles of Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde and Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. She returned to Lyric Opera in 2010-2011 as Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin and understudy for Amelia in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera. She also sang Sieglinde in Act 1 of Wagner’s Die Walküre that season with the Colorado Symphony and made her Festival debut singing Elsa in Savonlinna Opera Festival's production of Lohengrin.
Miss Wagner made her concert debut in 2009 with the Grant Park Orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and later sang Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Oregon Symphony, both under the baton of Carlos Kalmar. Future engagements include her Metropolitan Opera debut as Anna in Nabucco, her role debut as Sieglinde at Oper Frankfurt conducted by Sebastian Weigle, as well as the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos with Lyric Opera of Chicago, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. She is a winner of the Liederkranz Foundation Competition, Richard Tucker Award, Palm Beach Opera and Palm Springs Opera Guild Competitions, Lynne Harvey Scholarship from the Musicians Club of Women, Union League Civic Competition, Arts Foundation Competition and Kirsten Flagstad Award of the George London Foundation, as well as being the recipient of a Sullivan Foundation Career Grant. Amber Wagner received her voice degree from Grand Canyon University, where she studied with Sheila Corley.
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Soprano Amber Wagner, a native of California, was a winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finals, which were the subject of the acclaimed 2009 documentary film The Audition. A member of the Patrick G. and Shirley Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2007 to 2010, Miss Wagner made her debut with Lyric Opera as an Unborn Child in Die Frau ohne Schatten and performed in the student matinees of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. During the 2008-2009 season, she appeared in the role of Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and understudied the roles of Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde and Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. She returned to Lyric Opera in 2010-2011 as Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin and understudy for Amelia in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera. She also sang Sieglinde in Act 1 of Wagner’s Die Walküre that season with the Colorado Symphony and made her Festival debut singing Elsa in Savonlinna Opera Festival's production of Lohengrin.
Miss Wagner made her concert debut in 2009 with the Grant Park Orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and later sang Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Oregon Symphony, both under the baton of Carlos Kalmar. Future engagements include her Metropolitan Opera debut as Anna in Nabucco, her role debut as Sieglinde at Oper Frankfurt conducted by Sebastian Weigle, as well as the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos with Lyric Opera of Chicago, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. She is a winner of the Liederkranz Foundation Competition, Richard Tucker Award, Palm Beach Opera and Palm Springs Opera Guild Competitions, Lynne Harvey Scholarship from the Musicians Club of Women, Union League Civic Competition, Arts Foundation Competition and Kirsten Flagstad Award of the George London Foundation, as well as being the recipient of a Sullivan Foundation Career Grant. Amber Wagner received her voice degree from Grand Canyon University, where she studied with Sheila Corley.
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