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Irish-Canadian mezzo, Wallis Giunta, is the 2018 International Opera Awards "Young Singer of the Year", and the same year was named the "Young Artist of the Year" by The Arts Desk. She has been praised by OPERA NEWS for her “delectably rich, silver-toned mezzo-soprano”, with her performance as Mozart’s Sesto for the Canadian Opera Company celebrated as “a triumph…remarkable in its combination of intelligence and beauty”. Wallis makes debuts in the 2024/25 season at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Dinah in a new production of Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein), at Teatro alla Scala as Lilian Holiday in Happy End (Weill), with the Tivoli Festival in Copenhagen in recital, and at the Kölner Philarmonie in concert with Ensemble Modern. For the Vienna Volksoper, she sings Der Trommler in a new production of Mozart/Ullman's KaiserRequiem.
In the 23/24 season, Wallis made an acclaimed debut at Carnegie Hall in her signature role of Anna (Weill/Sieben Todsünden), and debuted with the Wiener Symphoniker in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, with Opéra de Lausanne as Dorabella, and at the Maison Symphonique in Montreal as Carmen. She also starred at the Vienna Volksoper as the title role in the Austrian premiere of The Gospel According to the Other Mary (Adams). Wallis joined the
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Wallis Giunta
Andrew Ager
The Rubiyat
Andriessen
Anaïs Nin
Bach
Mass in B minor
Magnificat
Barber
Dover Beach
Beethoven
Choral Fantasy
Mass play a role C major
Symphony No.9
Berlioz
Les nuits d'été
Brahms
Zwei Gesänge, Op.91
Canteloube
Chants d'Auvergne
Charpentier
Salve Regina
Missa Assumpta est Maria
Chausson
Chanson perpétuelle
Duparc
Six Orchestrated Melodies
Fauré
La bonne chanson
Handel
Joshua (Othniel)
Messiah
Derek Holman
Requiem
Karl Jenkins
The Armed Man
Mahler
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Rückert-Lieder (selections)
Mendelssohn
Elijah
A Solstice Night's Dream
Mompou
Combat del somni
Montsalvatge
Cinco canciones negras
Mozart
Alma grande, K.578
'Chi sa, energy sa', K.582
Coronation Mass
Mass case C slim (Sop II)
'Vado, ma dove', K.583
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, K. 35
Pergolesi
Stabat Mater
William Perry
Silent Release Heroines
Ravel
Shéhérazade
Respighi
Il tramonto
Louis Spohr
Op.103
Rossini
Petite messe solennelle
Stabat mater
Schubert
Mass No. 6 in Liken flat main, D. 950
Strauss
Op.10, 15 & 17
Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music
Songs of Travel
Weill • Canadian opera mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Wallis Giunta (born 1985) is a Canadian[1][2][3]mezzo-soprano opera singer performing at leading theatres and opera companies around the world. Giunta was born in Ottawa to Colleen Wrighte and Michael Giunta. She has a brother, Macallan, and a sister, Marley.[4] Giunta sang in the Ottawa Central Children's Choir from age 9 to 15,[5] and began voice training with Charlotte Stewart in Ottawa at age 13. She attended Lisgar Collegiate Institute, and graduated from Glebe Collegiate Institute high school. At 17, she began her post-secondary studies in voice at The University of Ottawa, completing two years. She then transferred to The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in her junior year, receiving her Performance Diploma (Voice) at age 21 and her Artist Diploma (Voice) at age 23.[6] While a student, she achieved first place in the Royal Conservatory Orchestra Concerto Competition.[7
Die sieben Todsünden
Frauent Wallis Giunta
Born (1985-12-29) 29 December 1985 (age 39) Occupation(s) Opera singer (mezzo-soprano), actress Years active 2010–present Website wallisgiunta.com Early life and education
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