Irish-Canadian mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta, winner of the 2018 International Opera Award for Young Singer of the Year, has been praised by Opera News for her “delectably rich, silver-toned mezzo-soprano.” In the 2024/25 season she makes major debuts at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Dinah in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Teatro alla Scala as Lilian Holiday in Weill’s Happy End, the Tivoli Festival in Copenhagen in recital, and the Kölner Philharmonie in concert with Ensemble Modern. For the Vienna Volksoper, she will appear as Der Trommler in a new production of Mozart/Ullmann’s KaiserRequiem.
Highlights of her 2023/24 season included her Carnegie Hall debut in her signature role of Anna (Die sieben Todsünden), performances with the Wiener Symphoniker in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, as Dorabella with Opéra de Lausanne, as Carmen in Montreal, and in the Austrian premiere of John Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary at the Volksoper, where she is a current ensemble member.
A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and The Juilliard School, Giunta is also a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Bernard Diamant Prize and multiple awards from the George London Foundation.