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Stephanie Wake-Edwards

MEZZO-SOPRANO/CONTRALTO
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Fletcher Artist Management represents Stephanie Wake-Edwards in North America. For inquiries elsewhere, please contact Sam Snook at IMG Artists.

British mezzo-soprano/contralto Stephanie Wake-Edwards, called “richly expressive” by The Times is a winner of the Concours Bordeaux Médoc Lyrique, a graduate of the presitigous Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden, England’s representative for the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, and a current ensemble member of the Deustche Oper Berlin.

 

Ms. Wake-Edwards’ performances of the 2024/25 season as part of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble include the title role in Carmen, La Marchesa Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Mary in Der fliegende Holländer, the Page in Salome, and more. Highlights of 2025/26 season include Grimgerde in Die Walküre and Floßhilde in Götterdämmerung as part of the Ring Cycle. Elsewhere in 2024/25, Ms. Wake-Edwards will appear as Polina in Pique Dame with Garsington Opera and Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in concert as part of the BBC Proms.

In the 2023/24 season, Stephanie Wake-Edwards performed Hermia with Garsington Opera, the 3rd Lady in Die Zauberflöte with English National Opera, and the Third Nymph in Rusalka at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Highlights of previous seasons have included Ino in a new production of Semele at Glyndebourne Opera, Anna in Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins at the Teatro Colón in Argentina, Javotte in Manon with Staatsoper Hamburg, and more. While at the Royal Ballet and Opera, Stephanie Wake-Edwards performed Anna in Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, filmed for streaming release, Flora in La traviata and 3rd Lady in Die Zauberflöte.

 

In concert, she has performed Handel’s Messiah with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Semyon Bychkov at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater at the Grafenegg Festival in Austria, Messiah in Dubai with the Astana Symphony Orchestra, as well as recitals at Wigmore Hall, Opéra national de Bordeaux and Oxford Lieder Festival.

 

Based in Berlin, Ms. Wake-Edwards recently recorded selections of Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn) at the Mendelssohn house in Leipzig, including some works never before recorded. She graduated from the University of York with a BA in Sociology with Social Psychology followed by a Masters Degree in Vocal Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is an Associate, with Alex Ashworth.

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