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Wallis Giunta
Canadian opera mezzo-soprano
Wallis Giunta | |
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| Born | (1985-12-29) 29 December 1985 (age 39) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Opera singer (mezzo-soprano), actress |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Website | wallisgiunta.com |
Wallis Giunta (born 1985) is a Canadian[1][2][3]mezzo-soprano opera singer performing at leading theatres and opera companies around the world.
Early life and education
Giunta was born in Ottawa to Colleen Wrighte and Michael Giunta. She has a brother, Macallan, and a sister, Marley.[4] Giunta sang in the Ottawa Central Children's Choir from age 9 to 15,[5] and began voice training with Charlotte Stewart in Ottawa at age 13. She attended Lisgar Collegiate Institute, and graduated from Glebe Collegiate Institute high school. At 17, she began her post-secondary studies in voice at The University of Ottawa, completing two years. She then transferred to The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in her junior year, receiving her
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Ottawa native Wallis Giunta made her professional debut with the NAC Orchestra at age 13, and is thrilled, as always, to be performing again at home. She has been praised by Opera News for her “delectably rich mezzo-soprano”, and in 2018 was named “Young Singer of the Year” at the International Opera Awards. Wallis will debut in 2024 at Carnegie Hall as Anna in Die Sieben Todsünden, at Montreal’s Maison Symphonique as the title role in Carmen, and at London’s Royal Opera House in a yet-to-be-named role. She also appears in recital at the Tivoli SommerKlassik in Copenhagen, and at the Vienna Volksoper as the title role in John Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary. Highlights of her 2023 season were debuts with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, at the Komische Oper Berlin with Berio’s Folk Songs, and at the Opèra Comique in Paris as Dodo in Breaking the Waves.
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Wallis Giunta
Andrew Ager
The Rubiyat
Andriessen
Anaïs Nin
Bach
Mass in B minor
Magnificat
Barber
Dover Beach
Beethoven
Choral Fantasy
Mass in C major
Symphony No.9
Berlioz
Les nuits d'été
Brahms
Zwei Gesänge, Op.91
Canteloube
Chants d'Auvergne
Charpentier
Salve Regina
Missa Assumpta est Maria
Chausson
Chanson perpétuelle
Duparc
Six Orchestrated Melodies
Fauré
La bonne chanson
Handel
Joshua (Othniel)
Messiah
Derek Holman
Requiem
Karl Jenkins
The Armed Man
Mahler
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Rückert-Lieder (selections)
Mendelssohn
Elijah
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mompou
Combat del somni
Montsalvatge
Cinco canciones negras
Mozart
Alma grande, K.578
'Chi sa, chi sa', K.582
Coronation Mass
Mass in C minor (Sop II)
'Vado, ma dove', K.583
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, K. 35
Pergolesi
Stabat Mater
William Perry
Silent Film Heroines
Ravel
Shéhérazade
Respighi
Il tramonto
Louis Spohr
Op.103
Rossini
Petite messe s
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