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Soprano Tamara Wapinsky, an alumna of the San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship and Merola Opera Center, made her San Francisco War Memorial Opera House debut as Freia in Das Rheingold and Musetta in La bohème in San Francisco Opera’s 2008-2009 season. The Pennsylvania native made her Company debut as The Water in The Little Prince and created the role of Tallulah Carter in Thomas Pasatieri’s The Hotel Casablanca with the 2007 Merola Opera Program.
As a San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow, she has appeared with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra at the Stern Grove Music Festival with tenor Marco Berti, where she sang excerpts from Tosca and La Wally. She has also appeared with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in San Francisco’s “Opera in the Park”, singing various arias from their 2008-2009 season.
In the 2009-2010 season at San Francisco Opera, she was seen as The Lover in Il tabarro and the First Alm Sister in Suor Angelica, and later returned for Helmwige in Die Walküre. Upcoming engagements include Donna Elvira in Opera Omaha’s Don Giovanni.
As an Adler Fellow, Ms. Wapinsky has appeared with the orchestra singing scenes from Strauss’ Capriccio and Donizetti’s Anna Bolena and arias from Idomeneo and Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. While at San Francisco Opera, she covered the roles of such demanding repertoire as Marietta in Die Tote Stadt, Elettra in Idomeneo, and Desdemona in Otello.
Tamara Wapinsky has sung under the batons of Donald Runnicles, Patrick Summers, Giuseppe Finzi, Nicola Luisotti, Michael Tilson Thomas and John DeMain. As an apprentice artist at Chautauqua Opera, she sang the role of Nella in Gianni Schicchi. Other roles in her repertoire include Giorgetta (Il tabarro), Beatrice Carbone (A View from the Bridge), Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and Folia in Noam Sivan’s The Fruits of Folia. She has also appeared in the title roles of Suor Angelica, Madama Butterfly, and Ariadne auf Naxos.
The soprano has appeared in concert as a soloist with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Northern Pittsburgh Philharmonic, Bay Shore Lyric Opera, Annapolis Opera, and the Tri-Cities Symphony Orchestra, where she was the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. In 2008, she appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas in The Thomashefsky Project.
Ms. Wapinsky is a past prizewinner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Giulio Gari Competition, the Licia Albanese Puccini Competition, and the Opera Index Competition. She is a student of Cesar Ulloa. |
