Biography

Meredith Wohlgemuth is an American soprano who completed her Master of Music in Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School and continues to study with Marlena Malas.

Meredith has achieved significant success in international competitions: Together with pianist Jinhee Park, she won first prize at the Concours Musical International de Montreal in 2022 and at the International Schubert LiedDuo Competition in Dortmund in 2023, She was a semi-finalist in the Wigmore Competition, a finalist in the Young Concert Artists International Competition, and a winner of the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Competition. 

From 2023/24 to 2024/25, Meredith Wohlgemuth was a member of the ensemble at the Hanover State Opera, where she sang roles including Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie), Satyagraha (Ms Schlesin), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Tytania), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Giulietta), Hansel and Gretel (Gretel), L'elisir d'amore (Adina), Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice), Lear by Aribert Reimann (Cordelia) and Parsifal (Flower Maiden).

Other opera highlights include Gretel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel at the Chautauqua Opera, Annina in Verdi's La Traviata and A Girl/Francisca in Bernstein's West Side Story as a resident artist at Opera Naples. In August 2023, she sang the role of Ilia as a Renée Fleming Artist at the Aspen Music Festival and School, at the Tanglewood Music Festival in the US premiere of George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence, and at Juilliard Opera as Despina in Così fan tutte and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas.

On the concert stage, she has performed Bruckner's Te Deum with the German Radio Philharmonic under Pietari Inkinen, Handel's Clori with Juilliard415, Tirsi in Tirsi e Fileno at Alice Tully Hall, and with the Cecilia Chorus of New York at Carnegie Hall under the baton of Mark Shapiro. 

A passionate interpreter of art songs and new music, Meredith and accompanist Jinhee Park perform regularly together. Highlights of her recent concerts and residencies include the Schubertíada song series in Barcelona, the Renée Fleming SongStudio 2023, the 21c recital at National Sawdust, and appearances at the Caramoor Centre for Music and the Arts and Merkin Hall as a Schwab Vocal Rising Star at the New York Festival of Song under Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois.

In the 2025/26 season, Meredith Wohlgemuth will sing the soprano part in the closing concert of the Tyrolean Festival in Erl. The programme includes Beethoven's 9th Symphony conducted by Asher Fish. She is also part of the Cleveland Orchestra's annual Christmas concerts conducted by Sarah Hicks. She can be seen as Frasquita in Carmen at Seattle Opera and as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at New Orleans Opera, and will also join the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for the role Marie in La fille du régiment.

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Artist Website

www.merwohlgemuth.com 

Management

Europe

Artist Manager
 
 
 
 Boris Orlob
Managing Director
boris@orlob.net 
Mobil: +49-172-8 51 55 14

News

First main role at the Staatstheater Hannover
- new at BOM
We congratulate Meredith Wohlgemuth, winner of the Met Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition 2023 as well as this year's "International Schubert Competition Dortmund" on her first main role at the Staatstheater Hannover!
She will make her debut in the role of Giulietta in Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" on 11 November, 2023.

Further information and performance dates:
www.staatstheater-hannover.de/... 
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