Meredith Wohlgemuth

Soprano Meredith Wohlgemuth is a 2023 Grand Prize Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. In the 2025-26 season Wohlgemuth debuts with Seattle Opera in Bizet’s Carmen (Frasquita), New Orleans Opera for Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie), and joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for Donizetti’s La fille du régiment. On the concert stage, she makes her debut at Tiroler Festspiele Erl in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Asher Fisch and with the Cleveland Orchestra in their annual holiday concerts conducted by Sarah Hicks.

Wohlgemuth was a member of the ensemble at Hannover State Opera for two seasons, making role debuts including Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Ms. Schlesin in Philip Glass’s Satyagraha, Tytania in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Giulietta in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Cordelia in Aribert Reimann’s Lear, and Blumenmädchen in Wagner’s Parsifal. Additional operatic highlights include appearances at the Aspen Music Festival as a Renée Fleming Artist in Mozart’s Idomeneo (Ilia), the Tanglewood Music Festival for the U.S. premiere of George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence (Witness 1), Opera Naples in Verdi’s La traviata (Anina), and Juilliard Opera in Mozart’s Così fan tutte (Despina) and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Belinda).

On the concert stage, Wohlgemuth has performed with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie in Bruckner’s Te Deum under Pietari Inkinen, with Juilliard415 in Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno (Tirsi) at Alice Tully Hall, and with the Cecilia Chorus of New York at Carnegie Hall under Mark Shapiro.

A passionate interpreter of art song and new music, Wohlgemuth and collaborative pianist Jinhee Park were First Prize winners of both the 2023 Internationaler Schubert LiedDuo-Wettbewerb in Dortmund and the 2022 Concours musical international de Montréal. Recent recital and residency highlights include the Schubertíada Lied series in Barcelona, the 2023 Renée Fleming SongStudio, 21c Liederabend at National Sawdust, and performances at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts and Merkin Hall as a Schwab Vocal Rising Star with the New York Festival of Song under Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois.

Wohlgemuth holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Arts from the Juilliard School (2020) and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance from Concordia University, Nebraska (2018). She was a 2022 Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center.