Biography

Scott Wilde, born in Wisconsin (USA), completed his musical training at the Juilliard School in New York before making his opera debut as Second Soldier/Salome at the Baltimore Opera. Early guest engagements took the bass to the New York City Opera, the Washington Opera, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and the San Francisco Opera. In his first season at the San Francisco Opera, he sang roles in Boris Godunov, La Forza del Destino, Andrea Chénier and Christophe Colomb. In the following five seasons, he appeared in San Francisco as Monterone/Rigoletto, Lord Rochefort/Anna Bolena, and Dr. Grenvil/La Traviata, among others.
 
Scott Wilde then made his European debut at the Dublin Grand Opera as Commendatore/Don Giovanni. The following season, he made his debut in Spain as Sarastro/Die Zauberflöte at El Teatro Principal de Palma de Mallorca. During his subsequent permanent engagement at the Semperoper Dresden, he expanded his repertoire to include many roles, including the Hermit/Der Freischütz, Den Holsteiner/Friedenstag, Truffaldino/Ariadne auf Naxos, and the King/Aida, before launching his international career as a freelance artist.
 
He returned to the San Francisco Opera as Sprecher/Zauberflöte, where he also appeared as Abimélech/Samson et Dalila and Hans Foltz/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He also sang the role of Jason in the world premiere of Rolf Liebermann's Medea in Bern, followed by a re-invitation to the Semperoper Dresden as Tom in Un Ballo in Maschera and to the Opera House in Tours, where he sang King Marke in concert performances of Tristan und Isolde. He quickly established himself as a guest singer at the opera houses in Toulouse, Amsterdam, Geneva, Montpellier and Madrid, where he appeared in classical bass roles or, most recently, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in Lady Macbeth of Minsk. This was followed by his highly successful debut at the Opéra Nationale de Paris under the baton of James Conlon and Peter Mussbach in Dusapin's Perelà, L'homme de fumée. Since then, he has been a regular and welcome guest in Paris, where he has appeared in many productions, including The Magic Flute, Strauss' Salomé and Alban Berg's Lulu.
 
Recent engagements include Sarastro/The Magic Flute and Arkel/Pelléas et Mélisande at the Welsh National Opera, Gershom Sholem in the premiere of Tabachnik's La dernière nuit de Walter Benjamin at the Opera de Lyon, Bonze/Madama Butterfly and Hans Foltz/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Teatro Real Madrid, Hérod in Mariotte's Salomé and General Audebert/Silent Night at the Wexford Festival. He also took on the roles of Decius & Dardanus in Battistelli's Julius Caesar (world premiere) at the Teatro dell'Opera Roma, First Apprentice/Wozzeck at the Liceu Barcelona and Father Trulove/The Rake's Progress at the Opéra de Rennes and Angers Nantes Opéra. Wilde also sang Le Bailli/Werther at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Turpin/Sweeney Todd at the Komische Oper Berlin, the Police Commissioner in Der Rosenkavalier at the Dutch National Opera, and Simone/Il Trittico, a role he also performed at the Opéra National de Paris, alongside Il Talpa/Il Trittico and Martinů's The Greek Passion at the Salzburg Festival.

In the 2025/26 season, Scott Wilde will take on the roles of the King/Die Gänsemagd at the Staatstheater Hamburg, Theseus/A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville and Dansker in Britten's Billy Budd at the Opéra National de Lyon. 

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