Wendy Bryn Harmer
The Seattle Times heralded Wendy Bryn Harmer as 鈥渁 standout Senta with a big, radiant voice鈥 in her first performances of Der fliegende Holl盲nder with Seattle Opera. In the 2024-25 season, she makes both her European and South American debuts as Senta in Der fliegende Holl盲nder at Staatsoper Hamburg and the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, respectively. She makes role debuts as Turandot with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw in a return to Santa Fe Opera, joins the Metropolitan Opera for its production of Fidelio, and sings her first performances of Verdi鈥檚 Requiem with Orlando Opera. Last season, she returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Kitty Hart in the new production of Dead Man Walking, created the role of Marilyn in Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith鈥檚 The Righteous in her Santa Fe Opera debut, and sang Ravel鈥檚 厂丑茅丑茅谤补锄补诲别 with the Utah Symphony. She also added the role of Br眉nnhilde in Die Walk眉re to her repertoire.
Sought-after in German repertoire, she has recently excelled as Chrysothemis in Elektra with the Metropolitan Opera, Santa in Der fliegende Holl盲nder with Seattle Opera and Utah Opera, Leonore in Fidelio with Opera Omaha and Boston Baroque, the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos with Palm Beach Opera, and Eglantine in von Weber鈥檚 rarely-performed Euryanthe at the Bard Music Festival. She previously joined Seattle Opera as well as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Detroit Opera, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Music Festival for operas the comprise Wagner鈥檚 Ring Cycle. Her countless previous performances within the epic work encompass the roles of Sieglinde, Gerhilde, and Orltinde in Die Walk眉re; Freia in Das Rheingold; and Gutrune and Third Norn in 骋枚迟迟别谤诲盲尘尘别谤耻苍驳.
In other repertoire, Ms. Harmer has sung Adalgisa in Norma, also at Palm Beach Opera, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with Houston Grand Opera, Fata Morgana in The Love for Three Oranges with Opera Philadelphia, Desdemona in Otello with the Kalamazoo Symphony, Susan B. Anthony in The Mother of Us All at Chautauqua Opera, Wanda in La Grande-Duchesse de G茅rolstein and Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito with Opera Boston, Elle in La voix humaine with Utah Opera, and Mim矛 in La boh猫me at the Utah Festival Opera.
A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera鈥檚 Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, she has returned to the company鈥檚 famed stage countless other times in Parsifal, Die 脛gyptische Helena, War and Peace, Khovanshchina, and Le nozze di Figaro. Her performances in Die Zauberfl枚te, as well as the Ring Cycle, have been released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon following the company鈥檚 Live in HD broadcasts. She has also joined the company for its productions of Ariadne auf Naxos, Iolanta, Lohengrin, Der fliegende Holl盲nder, Norma, 闯别苍暖蹿补, Rusalka, Pique Dame, La clemenza di Tito, and Don Giovanni.
On the concert stage, she has sung聽Vaughan Williams鈥櫬A Sea Symphony聽with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven鈥檚聽Symphony No. 9聽with the San Francisco Symphony and Tulsa Symphony Orchestra. With Gemma New conducing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, she sang Beethoven鈥檚 Ah! Perfido and Barber鈥檚 Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She joined the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for its Schubert Festival and, at Lincoln Center, performed as a soloist in its Tribute to Renata Tebaldi.聽She made her New York recital debut under the auspices of The Marilyn Horne Foundation聽and was presented by the George London Foundation in a recital with Ben Heppner at the Morgan Library.
