Verity Wingate

In the 2025/26 season, Wingate returns to Bühnen Bern as Contessa Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, conducted by Clément Lonca and directed by Marco Štorman. This follows her acclaimed role debut as Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the house last season. On the concert stage, Wingate joins the London Mozart Players for performances of Verdi’s Requiem.

Last season, Wingate made several role and house debuts as Magda de Civry in Puccini’s La Rondine at Volksoper Wien under Tobias Wögerer, and as Wellgunde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold in a new Tobias Kratzer production at the Bayerische Staatsoper with Vladimir Jurowski. She also made her debut at the Wiener Musikverein in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Tonkünstler Orchestra conducted by Yutaka Sado. Additional concert appearances included Dvořák’s Stabat Mater at Canterbury and Southwark Cathedrals with the London Mozart Players, and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

Wingate has received wide acclaim for her portrayals of Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, with notable debuts at Oper Frankfurt, Komische Oper Berlin, and at the Edinburgh International Festival in Kirill Serebrennikov’s acclaimed production. She first performed the role at Malmö Opera to much critical acclaim: “Wingate’s warm soprano soars with the orchestra’s air under her wings… then time stands still not only on stage but in the auditorium” (Sydsvenskan). She made her role and house debut as the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta at Bühnen Bern under the baton of Nicholas Carter, for which her performance has been noted as giving “goosebumps moments” (Die Junge Buehne) and “an impressive, youthful Iolanta” (Jungfrau Zeitung).

Other notable appearances include her Staatsoper Hamburg debut as Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen and her English National Opera debut as Mrs. Naidoo in Philip Glass’s Satyagraha (Carolyn Kuan), Mimi in Puccini’s La bohème at the Nederlandse Reisopera, and as the Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at Garsington Opera (Mark Wigglesworth).

Wingate has appeared in recital and concerts at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Lincoln Center, Barbican Centre, Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Holywell Music Room Oxford, and Aldeburgh Festival.

She is an alumna of the Opera Studio at Dutch National Opera, where roles included Anna in Verdi’s Nabucco and Luisa Casati Stampa di Soncino in the world premiere of Willem Jeths’s Ritratto, which was named BBC Music Magazine’s Opera Choice for February 2021. In 2021, Wingate was selected for the Salzburg Festival Young Singers Project, where she performed the role of Die Schleppträgerin in Krzysztof Warlikowski’s production of Elektra conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. That same year, Wingate won second prize at the prestigious Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition.

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