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Lyric soprano Verity Wingate joined the Opera Studio at the Dutch National Opera after her guest appearance as Elisetta in Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto in April 2019. She joined the studio in September and sang the role of Anna in Nabucco alongside Anna Pirozzi as Abigaille. The world premiere of Willem Jeths’ opera Ritratto, in which Verity takes the lead role of Italian socialite Luisa Casati Stampa di Soncino, was scheduled for mid-March 2020 as part of the Opera Forward Festival. After being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the performances finally took place in October 2020. The recording of the dress rehearsal of Ritratto was selected as BBC Music Magazine’s Opera Choice for February 2021.
Following her debut as Luisa Casati, Verity was awarded 2nd Prize and an engagement at the Konzert Theater Bern, at the 39th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition. She has also appeared on the Netherlands Radio in several interviews and concerts, including a recital on Goethe’s Faust; and performances of Mozart, Hendrik Andriessen and Anders Hillborg with members of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.
Next, Verity is scheduled to appear once again as Die Schleppträgerin in Richard Strauss’ Elektra at the Salzburg Festival; as well as taking part in the Young Singers Project, postponed from the 2020 season.
From Salzburg, Verity returns home to the UK to make her house and role debut at English National Opera as Mrs. Naidoo in Philip Glass’ Satyagraha.
Verity is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and of the Royal Academy of Music in London and is the recipient of several awards and scholarships. In 2021 Verity was awarded 2nd Prize at the prestigious Belvedere Singing Competition. In 2018 she received Garsington Opera’s Leonard Ingram Award and while at the Guildhall School she received the Paul Hamburger Prize awarded by Graham Johnson for her excellence in Schubert song. She is a scholar of the Samling Institute, the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Foundation, the Alvarez Young Artist Programme at Garsington Opera and the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival.
Following a project at the Guildhall School, Verity was invited to join the prestigious group, The Prince Consort by its founder Alisdair Hogarth and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston. As one of its members she has given recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall and at music festivals in Harrogate, Bath and Hertfordshire, whilst also appearing on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ and featuring frequently on Classic FM.
As a concert and oratorio soloist Verity has appeared in performances of Bach Christmas Oratorio and B minor Mass, Handel Jephtha, Athalia and Messiah, Mozart Requiem and C minor Mass, Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem and Mahler Symphony No.4. Among the venues where she has sung are the Leipzig Gewandhaus, New York’s Lincoln Center and in the UK at the Barbican Centre, Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square and St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Aldeburgh Festival and the Holywell Music Room in Oxford.
Verity has worked with opera directors including Krzysztof Warlikowski, Andreas Homoki, Monique Wagemakers, Netia Jones and Marcel Sijm, and conductors including Franz Welser-Möst, Maurizio Benini, Gianluca Capuano, Masaaki Suzuki, Laurence Cummings and Christian Curnyn.

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