Website of New York City based Opera Soprano Wendy Hill. Site includes photographs, biographical and contact information.
Ms. Hill has appeared
with such prominent North American companies as Houston Grand Opera, Washington
Opera, Vancouver Opera, Omaha Opera, Florentine Opera, Skylight Opera Theatre,
and Glimmerglass Opera. She is a favorite at Seattle Opera, where, since debuting
as Romilda in Xerxes opposite Frederica von Stade, she has returned to perform
Rosalinda in Fledermaus and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte Roles she has
sung nationally include Anne Trulove in The Rakešs Progress , Violetta in Traviata
, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia , Donna Elviria in Don Giovanni and the
title role in Lucia di Lammermoor . She was recently featured in Eos Orchestra's
"Six Miniature Operas". Ms. Hill has made a specialty of contemporary
opera, creating leading roles in the world premieres of Meredith Monk's Atlas
at Houston Grand Opera, Philip Glass' Orphée at the American Repertory
Theatre and at BAM, David Del Tredici's monodrama Dracula with the EOS Orchestra,
Carly Simon's Romulus Hunt for the Metropolitan Opera Guild and Kennedy Center,
and Louis Andriessen's De Materie , directed by Robert Wilson for The Holland
Festival at the Netherlands Opera. Ms. Hill also created the leading role of
Alice B. Toklas in the Off- Broadway premiere of Jonathan Sheffer's opera Blood
on the Dining Room Floor Since her 1987 European debut at Netherlands Opera
as La Maraine in Cendrillon , Ms. Hill has returned to Europe to sing Pat Nixon
in both the London Symphony Orchestra's concert version and the Vienna Opera
Theater's staged production of John Adams' Nixon in China portrayed Nerone in
a Göttingen Festival production of Handel's Agrippina conducted by Nicholas
McGegan and recorded by Harmonia Mundi, and Greta Fiorentino in Street Scene
Berlin, in a Houston Grand Opera production which was telecast and released
on video. Ms. Hill's other recordings include , and Werner's Deborah Comfortable
in "crossover" repertoire, Ms. Hill has sung roles including Carlotta
in the 1995 national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera , and
Maria in West Side Story with the London Symphony Orchestra, and appeared in
an American musical theater program at the Covent Garden Festival. Ms. Hill's
upcoming engagements include the roles of Woglinde and Freia in the EOS Orchestra's
chamber version of Wagner's Das Rheingold , and her San Francisco Opera debut
as Constance Fletcher in Virgil Thomson's Mother of Us All , a role she has
previously performed at Glimmerglass Opera and New York City Opera. BIOGRAPHY
HOME Recent & Upcoming Performances include: Woglinde & Freia, Das Rheingold
Wagner Eos Orchestra May 17, 8:00 pm Purchase College, Purchase, New York May
23 & 25 8:00 pm Concert Hall at the Ethical Culture Society 2 West 64th
Street, New York City Cecilia March Little Women Mark Adamo Chautauqua Opera,
Norton Hall Chautauqua Institution, NY 14722 August 2 & 5, 7:30 PM Constance
Fletcher, The Mother of Us All San Francisco Opera 2003, San Francisco, CA