Caroline Wenborne

Soprano

Australian Soprano Caroline Wenborne has performed on the stage of the Wiener Staatsoper in over 200 performances. Highlights at this house include Donna Anna (Mozart: Don Giovanni), Vitellia (Mozart: La Clemeza di Tito), Fiordiligi (Mozart: Così fan tutte), Freia (Wagner: Das Rheingold) and Lucile (von Einem: Dantons Tod). She was also seen on several premiere productions, such as Gutrune  and Dritte Norn (Wagner: Götterdämmerung), Gerhilde (Wagner: Die Walküre) and Emma (Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina).

In October 2019 she made her role debut as Amelia in Verdi’s Simone Boccanegra, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 performances as Gutrune and Marianne Leitmetzerin (Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier) have been cancelled. Future appearances include, among others, her debut at Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

In the 2019/20 season, Caroline performed at both of Vienna’s most prestigious concert stages: in the Golden Hall of Musikverein with Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder under the baton of Guillermo Garcia Calvo, and in Wiener Konzerthaus as Soprano Solo in Verdi’s requiem.

Caroline Wenborne made guest appearances in Bayreuth in the summers of 2016 and 2017, where she sang Freia and Gerhilde in Wagner’s Der Ring des Niebelungen. At the Volksoper Wien she appeared as a Fiordiligi in a premiere production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. As a concert singer, she has already been invited to the Wiener Musikverein and the Wiener Konzerthaus. Since 2014 she has performed regularly with the Wiener Grabenensemble, which is made up of members of the Wiener Staatsoper Orchestra.

Her repertoire also includes roles such as Desdemona (Verdi: Otello), Leonora (Verdi: Il trovatore), Amelia (Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera), Elisbetta (Verdi: Don Carlo), Mimì (Puccini: La Bohème), Alice Ford (Verdi: Falstaff) and Tosca (Puccini: Tosca). She has worked with Seiji Ozawa, Adam Fischer, Donald Runnicles, Franz Welser-Möst, Ivor Bolton, Peter Schneider, Marco Armiliato, Simone Young, Jeffrey Tate, Sir Simon Rattle, Semyon Bychkov and Christian Thielemann.

Repertoire

Schedule

  • Jungfer Marianne Leitmertzerin
    (Absage wegen COVID-19)

    Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

    Wiener Staatsoper
    13., 16., 19. April 2020

  • Gutrune & Dritte Norn
    (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

    Wagner: Götterdämmerung

    Wiener Staatsoper
    28 March 2020

  • Sopran

    Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder

    Musikverein Wien
    13 December 2019