Guest Artist Bio

Amber Wagner

• Performs in Rossini's Stabat Mater:
  Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 7:30 pm
  Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 7:30 pm
  Monday, March 8, 2010 at 8 pm
  

Soprano Amber Wagner, an Oregon native, is a winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finals and was featured in the documentary film The Audition, which opened nationwide in 2009. L.A. Splash Magazine lauded Wagner for her "powerful and radiant [voice], which carried effortlessly over the orchestra."

A member of the Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2007, Wagner made her debut at Lyric Opera as an Unborn Child in Die Frau ohne Schatten and performed as Berta in the student matinees of Il barbiere di Siviglia and as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. She also understudied the roles of Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde and Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana.

This season in Chicago – her third at Lyric Opera – she sings the role of Feklusa in Katya Kabanova and understudies the role of Elvira in Ernani, as well as performing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Grant Park Festival under Carlos Kalmar.

Wagner earned her undergraduate voice degree from Grand Canyon University, where she studied under Dr. Sheila Corley. She recently won a Richard Tucker Award and is the recipient of a Sullivan Foundation Career Grant. Wagner is also the first-place winner of the Palm Beach Opera and Palm Springs Opera Guild competitions, among others.