Melody Wilson
Mezzo Soprano
With her warm, richly timbred voice, mezzo-soprano Melody Wilson has quickly made a name for herself in Europe and the US, appearing on Opera America Magazine’s winter 2024 cover as Fricka in Das Rheingold.
In 2026, she makes her role debut as Dalila with Union Avenue Opera and returns to Seattle Opera as Gaea in Daphne and Mercédès in Carmen. On the concert stage, she appears in a gala concert with the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera.
In most recent seasons, Melody Wilson appeared in Wagner productions across the United States, making her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Mary in Der fliegende Holländer and returning to Seattle Opera as Fricka in Das Rheingold. She also sang Rossweisse in Die Walküre with the Dallas Symphony, a performance released on CD by Delos Records. Her work in contemporary opera included her Virginia Opera debut in the world premiere of Damian Geter’s Loving v. Virginia and the staged opera version of Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road with the Lancaster Symphony. She also covered Charmian in John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra at San Francisco Opera and Cousin Blanche in Terence Blanchard’s Champion at the Metropolitan Opera. Further operatic highlights of the recent past included Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Atlanta Opera and her role debut as Amneris in Aida with Union Avenue Opera, where she subsequently appeared as Olga in Eugene Onegin and Meg Page in Falstaff. She returned to one of her signature roles, Fenena in Nabucco, with Washington Concert Opera, and covered Olga in Eugene Onegin at San Francisco Opera.
On the concert stage, she made her debut with the San Francisco Symphony in Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody and sang Sanctuary Road with the Charleston Symphony, at the Bach Festival in Orlando, and with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. She also made her Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart’s Requiem and performed Handel’s Messiah with the New West Symphony and the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, as well as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra and the Kalamazoo Symphony. With the Oakland Symphony, she appeared in the world premiere of Martin Rokeach’s Bodies on the Line.
Among her other operatic roles were Olga with the Dallas Symphony and Seattle Opera, the Principessa di Bouillon in Adriana Lecouvreur with Baltimore Concert Opera, Mrs. Herring with the Princeton Festival, and Suzuki with Indianapolis Opera. She also created three roles in three commissioned operas for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where she also appeared as Addie in Mark Blitzstein’s Regina. With Union Avenue Opera, she performed Fenena, Linda in Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars, and Mrs. Miller in Douglas J. Cuomo’s Doubt, the latter earning her a nomination for a St. Louis Theater Circle Award in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Opera.
Early in her career, she appeared with Opera Delaware as Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Flora in La traviata, Kate in The Pirates of Penzance, and the Strawberry Woman in Porgy and Bess. With Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, she appeared in the Opera Quartet in The Ghosts of Versailles, covered the Page in Salome, and covered Denyce Graves as Emelda Griffith in the world premiere of Champion.
In Europe, Melody Wilson sang in the world premiere of Mondparsifal Alpha 1-8 (Jonathan Meese’s adaption of Parsifal) under Simone Young at the Wiener Festwochen and the Berliner Festspiele, Mrs. Sedley in Peter Grimes and Mercédès in Carmen, both at the Theater Bremen (Germany) as well as Maddalena in Rigoletto at the State Opera Budapest.
Melody Wilson is a five-time recipient of the Jessye Norman Fellowship and a winner of the “Gabriela Benacková Competition” in Prague and the “International Czech and Slovak Competition”.
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