Meredith Wohlgemuth is an American Soprano and is in her second season as an ensemble member at Staatsoper Hannover. She is a 2023 Grand Prize Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition.

This season at Staatsoper Hannover, Meredith will sing Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Ms. Schlesin in Satyagraha, Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel. This fall, she will also sing Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie and Conductor Pietari Inkinen, as well as performing a recital at The Juilliard School with pianist Jinhee Park. In March 2025, she will sing a Lied recital for the Schubertíada Lied series in Barcelona.

In the 2022/23 season, Meredith made her European operatic debut as well as six role debuts at the Staatsoper Hannover, including Giulietta in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo, Cordelia in Reimann’s Lear, and Blumenmädchen in Wagner’s Parsifal. Meredith also performed various Lied recitals in Dortmund and Köln with pianists Jinhee Park and Eric Schneider.

In October 2023, Meredith won the 1st Prize at the Internationaler Schubert LiedDuo-Wettbewerb in Dortmund with pianist Jinhee Park.

In August 2023, Meredith sang the role of Ilia at The Aspen Music Festival and School as a Renée Fleming Artist.

In 2022, she won the Mélodie Premiere Prix at the Concours international de Montreal. In addition to the first prize, she won the Joseph Rouleau Career Development Grant (50k) , Normand Beauchamp Winner’s Tour Grant (15k) and the French Mélodie Art Song Award with her duo partner Jinhee Park. Meredith was one of the seven winners of the Sullivan Foundation Grants in New York City. In August 2022, she sang a main role in the US Premiere of “Lessons in Love and Violence” by George Benjamin, with the composer at the podium, as part of Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music. She made her debut at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY, performing in a collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects, “21c Liederabend”. Last January, Meredith made her debut at Carnegie Hall as a Renée Fleming SongStudio Young Artist. And in March, she performed at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts and at Merkin Hall in NYC as a Schwab Vocal Rising Star in association with NYFOS (New York Festival of Song) with Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois.

In the 2020/2021 season, Meredith performed Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel at the Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory. In February, she was a Resident Artist at Opera Naples where she performed Annina in Verdi’s La Traviata and A girl/Francisca in Bernstein’s West Side Story alongside Grammy Award Winner Isabel Leonard. In the summer of 2020, Meredith was a recipient of the Novick Career Advancement Grant, and the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund Grant. She also premiered various new works virtually during the Pandemic, and became a member of the TOE Ensemble (That One Ensemble) in NYC, where they write and perform new music for various nonprofit organizations. In July 2021, Meredith was a Finalist in The American Prize Competition: The Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Memorial Award. 

In the 2019/2020 Season, Ms. Wohlgemuth performed Despina in Juilliard’s new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. In February 2020, she performed in a live-streamed masterclass with Renée Fleming at The Juilliard School. In March 2020, Meredith performed Debussy’s Nocturnes with the New York Philharmonic and Isabel Leonard at The Lincoln Center.

Meredith Wohlgemuth received her Master of Music degree in Vocal Arts from The Juilliard School in 2020 and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Performance from Concordia University, Nebraska in 2018. She studied with Marlena Malas.