Wallis Giunta

Recent highlights for Giunta include her house debut at the Opéra Comique as Dodo in Missy Mazzoli Breaking the Waves, performing the Berio Folk Songs at the Komische Oper Berlin and roles at the Volksoper Wien including Hansel in Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel, Cherubino in Mozart Le nozze di Figaro and Angelina in Rossini La Cenerentola.

Operatic highlights for Giunta include Dodo in Breaking the Waves for the Edinburgh International Festival and the Adelaide Festival, Rosina in Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia for Dallas Opera, role debuts as the title role in Bizet Carmen, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, and Octavian in Strauss Der Rosenkavalier at Oper Leipzig, Mercédès in izet Carmen for Oper Frankfurt, Sesto in Mozart La Clemenza di Tito and Dorabella in Cosí fan tutte for the Canadian Opera Company, Olga in Lehár The Merry Widow for the Metropolitan Opera and Paquette in Bernstein Candide with the Hamburger Symphoniker conducted by Sir Jeffrey Tate. In addition, Giunta has performed roles including Idamante in Mozart Idomeneo, Tigrane in Handel Radamisto, Bradamante in Handel Alcina, the title role in Ravel L’enfant et les sortilèges, Maria in Piazzola Maria de Buenos Aires and Dinah in Bernstein Trouble in Tahiti at houses including Opera de Lyon, Opera Montpellier, Opera North, Seattle Opera, the Royal Opera House Muscat, the Grange Festival and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.

On the concert platform, recent highlights include The Sound of Argentina and a critically acclaimed solo recital at the BBC Proms in Cadogan Hall, a return to the Münchner Rundfunkorchester for Mozart Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebots, a return to Koerner Hall, Toronto for a Bernstein Centenary gala following her acclaimed performances as Anna in Weill Seven Deadly Sins with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mozart Grosse Messe with the Gewandhaus Orchester and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.

Giunta is a recipient of a 2013 Novick Career Advancement Grant and the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Career Development Award, and has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. She is a 2013 graduate of both the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and the Juilliard School’s Artist Diploma in Opera Studies, and was a member of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio from 2009 to 2011.

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