Soprano Jennifer Wilson will make her LA Opera debut as Gutrune in Gotterdammerung in the 2009/10 season, reprising the role for the Company's Ring cycles in the summer of 2010.

It was as recently as 2002 that Jennifer Wilson made her professional debut in the title role of Turandot with the Connecticut Opera, but she is already rapidly establishing herself as one of the world's leading dramatic sopranos.

Following the Connecticut success, Jennifer Wilson went on to debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Helmwige in Die Walküre and make her first European appearance in the leading soprano role in Schulhoff's Die Flammen at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw conducted by Edo de Waart. In the 2003/04 season, she made a short-notice debut at Houston's Grand Opera, again in the title role of Turandot, which led The Houston Chronicle to declare her "A star in the making."

Ms. Wilson made her European operatic debut in the 2005/06 season at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in Robert Wilson's production of Die Walküre, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach and she went on to repeat her previous successes as Turandot at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall in Greece. In addition to further successful productions of Turandot for both the Santa Fe Opera and Opera Australia, Jennifer Wilson enjoyed a huge personal success with her first Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, also performing Helmwige, Gutrune and the Third Norn in that Company's 2005 Ring cycles. In 2007, she received unanimous critical and public acclaim as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre in the new Fura del Baus co-production for the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia and the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, both conducted by Zubin Mehta.

During the 2007/08 season, Jennifer Wilson sang Elisabeth in Tannhäuser with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal. She made role and house debuts as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer with the Washington National Opera and also returned to the Palau de les Arts in Valencia as Brünnhilde in Siegfried, again conducted by Zubin Mehta.

A versatile concert artist, her extensive repertoire includes Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs, Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Mozart's Esultate, Jubilate and she has performed as soprano soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No 9, in the Requiems of Verdi, Brahms, Mozart, Fauré and Duruflé, in Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Mass in Time of War, Saint Saens' Christmas Oratorio, Vaughan-Williams' Hodie, and Vivaldi's Gloria.

A native of Fairfax, Virginia, Jennifer Wilson is the recipient of a major grant from the Olga Forrai Foundation, as well as the 2003 Robert Lauch Memorial Grant from the Wagner Society of New York and the Liederkranz Foundation's Ethel Bleakley Daniels Award for Wagnerian Voices. She is the recipient of the Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart Emerging Singers Career Grant from the Wagner Society of Washington, with whom she has sung a number of concerts including major scenes from Lohengrin and the final scene from Siegfried.

In the 2008/09 season, she makes her house debut at Covent Garden as Turandot, returns to Florence for both Siegfried and Götterdämmerung and performs her first complete Ring cycle in Valencia. In concert, she will sing for the first time Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with Kent Nagano, and join Plácido Domingo for Die Walküre with the Symphony Orchestra in Galicia. In 2009, she will make her debut in the title role of Aida for Opera Australia.