Valda Wilson is one of the most versatile, exciting and musically curious sopranos of her generation. In the past five European seasons, Valda debuted to critical acclaim as Violetta (La traviata), Elisabeth de Valois (Don Carlos), Leonora (Il trovatore), Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Marguerite (Faust), Musetta (La bohème), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte),Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Euridice (Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice), Alcina (Alcina), Sylva Varescu (The Gypsy Princess),  Josepha Vogelhuber (Im weissen Rössl) and Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady). She thrilled and delighted audiences as Contessa di Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) and reprised her signature role of Hanna Glawari (Die lustige Witwe).

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In the 2022-23 season, Valda will reprise the role of Violetta (La Traviata) and debut as Micaëla (Carmen), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and in the title role of the world premiere of Sarah Nemtsov’s Ophelia at the Saarländisches Staatstheater. She will sing Wellgunde (Das Rheingold) at Opéra Royal, Versailles in addition to performing ‘Ah! perfido’ in a series of Beethoven concerts with Bremer Philharmoniker under John Nelson.

Her extensive opera and concert repertoire ranges from Bach and Handel, through Mozart and Beethoven, to Bellini, Verdi, Gounod,  Massenet, Mahler, Strauss, Schreker, Hindemith, Shostakovich, Hans Werner Henze and contemporary composers such as Miroslav Srnka, Philip Glass, Michael Obst and Australians Graeme Koehne, Paul Stanhope and Brett Dean.  Valda has worked with the orchestras of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro di San Carlo Naples, Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, New National Theatre Tokyo, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Strasbourg Philharmonique, Bremer Philharmoniker,  deFilharmonie Antwerp, and the Hallé, and such notable conductors as Richard Bonynge, Sir Antonio Pappano, Christian Thielemann, Charles Dutoit, John Fiore, Fabio Luisi, Philippe Herreweghe, Theodor Guschlbauer, Marko Letonja, Marcus Bosch, Thomas Søndergård, Suzuki Masato and Sébastien Rouland.

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Valda is a keen explorer of chamber music. She has been the featured vocalist on many occasions in chamber music recitals with both the Sächsische Staatskapelle and the Dresdner Philharmonie.  She is an audience favourite at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and has performed in recital and in radio broadcasts with such renowned ensembles as the Auryn Quartet, the Goldner Quartet, Tinalley Quartet, Orava Quartet, Freies Ensemble Dresden, Ensemble Mediterrain and Ensemble Liaison in Germany and Australia. Valda is featured on numerous CD recordings and in Ralf Pleger’s four part TV documentary Sängerkrieg auf hoher See about the prestigious Stella Maris International Singing Competition, which she won.

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Full biography in English  PDF

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Operatic repertoire PDF

Concert and chamber music PDF

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