Wendy Bryn Harmer
Soprano
April 13
2018
Boston Baroque debut
2
Performances
with Boston Baroque
The Seattle Times heralded Wendy Bryn Harmer as “a standout Senta with a big, radiant voice” in her first performances of Der fliegende Holländer with Seattle Opera. In the 2022-23 season, she returns to Utah Opera for further performances of Senta. She also sings Sieglinde in Die Walküre in concert with Michigan Opera Theater and the title role of Iphigénie en Tauride in a return to Boston Baroque in addition to returning to the Metropolitan Opera roster for its productions of Lohengrin and Der fliegende Höllander. Her future holds the debut of another Wagner role, Brünnhilde in Die Walküre with Atlanta Opera, a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Kitty Hart in the new production of Dead Man Walking, and Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the with the Utah Symphony. Last season, she debuted the role of Chrysothemis in Elektra at the Metropolitan Opera and joined the company for its production of Ariadne auf Naxos. She also sang Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Beethoven’s Ah! Perfido with the Chautauqua Symphony and Susan B. Anthony in Thompson’s The Mother of Us All at Chautauqua Opera.
“She made a moving and persuasively heroic Leonore...”
—The Boston Globe