Biography
Carole Wilson is widely recognised for her exceptional versatility and stagecraft, with a repertoire that spans from Mozart and Rossini to sometime and Gerald Barry. Equally at home in comic and dramatic roles, she remains a compelling presence across both traditional and contemporary repertoire.
Carole‘s recent and upcoming appearances include her return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as The Witch in Anthony McDonald’s production of Hansel and Gretel conducted by Giedrė Šlekytyė; her return to Opera Oviedo as Countess Adelaide (Arabella) conducted by Corrado Rovaris, and at the Teatro Real, Madrid as Barbarykha in Dmitri Tchernakov‘s production of the Tale of Tsar Saltan; she also returned to the Staatsoper Hamburg as Filipyevna in a revival of Eugene Onegin and she will appear as Tante Maria Sängerin in the world premier of Station Paradiso in Stuttgart. Further into the future, Carole will make her debut at the Tiroler Festspiele, Erl (Austria)and will return for new productions at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
Carole Wilson‘s engagements last season included her return to La Monnaie, Brussels as Mrs Grose in Andrea Breth‘s production of The Turn of the Screw and as Barbarikha in Dmitri Tchernakov‘s production of The Tale of Tsar Saltan; she also returned to Theater an der Wien as Gertrude in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette and she appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra as the Grandmother Buryova in concert performances of Jenůfa, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
Carole‘s recent appearances include: Susanna(Khovanschina)at the Opéra national de Paris; Grandmother Buryova (Jenůfa) for the Grand Théâtre de Genève; La Nourrice (Ariane et Barbe-Bleu) for the Opéra national de Lorraine; Annina in Der Rosenkavalier for the Staatsoper Stuttgart and La Monnaie, Brussels; Barbarikha in The Tale of Tsar Saltan for the Opéra national du Rhin and Mother Goose (Rake’s Progress) for the Glyndebourne Festival.
Elsewhere, Carole has appeared at the Royal Opera House as the White Queen/Cook/Oyster in Gerald Barry’s opera Alice Underground, Hata (Bartered Bride) and Dame Marthe in Faust; Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd and Barbarikha in The Tale of Tsar Saltan for La Monnaie; the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel for the Opéra national de Lorraine; Auntie (Peter Grimes) for Opéra de Monte Carlo and Deutsche Oper am Rhin; Annina (Der Rosenkavalier) at the Festspiele Baden Baden, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle; Bobylicka (Snegurotchka) for the Opéra national de Paris and she made her role debuts as Herodias (Salome) and Adelaide (Arabella) at the Vienna Staatsoper.
Carole has been particularly associated with the role of Aksinya in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk performing this role at La Scala, Milan; Teatro San Carlo di Napoli; Opéra national de Paris; Teatro Real, Madrid; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Staatsoper Hamburg; Opera Monte Carlo and Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam.
Carole performed as Mezzo Soprano soloist at the Wiener Staatsoper (2014–2016) she made her debut as Mary (Der Fliegender Holländer) conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; other roles included Ježibaba (Rusalka); Gertrude (Romeo et Juliette); Annina (Der Rosenkavalier); Berta (Il Barbiere di Siviglia).
Carole made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2002, and has returned many times notably as Aksinya in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk . She also appears regularly at the Opéra Royal de La Monnaie, Brussels, where her recent engagements included Mrs Lovett (Sweeney Todd); Ježibaba (Rusalka), Gertrude (Romeo et Juliette), Grandmother Buryova (Jenůfa) and Annina in La Traviata.
On the operatic and concert stages Carole has appeared under the baton of the worlds leading conductors, including: Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Andrew Davies, Nikolas Harnancourt, Bernard Haitink, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Adam Fischer, and the late Sir Charles Mackerras.
On the concert platform, Carole has appeared with many of the world’s finest orchestras: the Berlin Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Biography not for publication, for an up to date version please contact Oliver Clarke.