Melody Wilson, a five-time recipient of the Jessye Norman Fellowship, is steadily gaining recognition as a rising artist in the US and Europe. 

Career highlights include the world premiere of Mondparsifal Alpha 1-8 (Jonathan Meese’s adaptation of Wagner’s Parsifal) under Simone Young with the Wiener Festwochen and the Berliner Festspiele, Mrs. Miller in Union Avenue Opera’s production of Doubt, Mrs. Sedley in Peter Grimes, Mercédès in Carmen at Theater Bremen (Germany), Maddalena in Rigoletto at the State Opera Budapest (Hungary), Olga in Eugen Onegin with Seattle Opera, Sanctuary Road with Columbus Symphony, Addie in Blitzstein’s Regina with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and Fenena in Nabucco with Union Avenue Opera.  

Most recently, Ms. Wilson made her debut with Indianapolis Opera as Suzuki, returned to Opera Theatre of St. Louis for their New Works, Bold Voices program (3 commissioned operas), sang Mercédès in Carmen with Cincinnati Opera, and Beethoven’s Ninth with Kalamazoo Symphony. In 2022, she will make her debut with the San Francisco Symphony in Brahms’ Alto-Rhapsody, and sing Princess de Bouillon in Adriana Lecouvreur with Baltimore Concert Opera.