Valda Wilson is a native of Sydney, Australia, who has become a sought-after soprano in both her home country and Europe. On the opera stage, she has enjoyed great success at the Saarländisches Staatstheater, where she has been an ensemble member since 2017. Her roles to date have included Fiordiligi ("Così fan tutte"), Musetta ("La Bohème"), Violetta ("La Traviata"), Marschallin ("Der Rosenkavalier"), Marguerite ("Faust"), Sylva Varescu ("Die Csárdásfürstin"), Contessa Almaviva ("Le nozze di Figaro"), Hanna Glawari ("Die lustige Witwe"), Elisabeth de Valois ("Don Carlos"), Josepha Vogelhuber ("Im weißen Rössl"), Leonora ("Il trovatore"), Rosalinde ("Die Fledermaus"), Micaëla ("Carmen") and the title roles in "Alcina" and "Ophelia" (world premiere of Sarah Nemtsov's opera). In the 2023/24 season, she made her role debut as Suor Angelica in Puccini's opera of the same name in Saarbrücken; in the 2024/25 season, she sings the title role in “Aida” there.
Guest performances in recent years have taken her to the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen (Helmwige in “Die Walküre”) and the New National Theater Tokyo (Euridice in “Orfeo ed Euridice”). She also made guest appearances as Romilda (“Xerxes”) at the Nuremberg State Theater, as Iole (“Hercules”) at the Mannheim National Theater, as Vitellia (“La clemenza di Tito”) at the Ulm Theater and, as a member of the ensemble at the Oldenburg State Theater (2014-2016), sang, among other roles, Alice Ford (“Falstaff”), Julia de Weert (“Der Vetter aus Dingsda”), Romilda (“Romilda e Costanza”), Helena (“A Midsummer Night's Dream”), Mrs. Naidoo (“Satyagraha”), Hanna Glawari and Contessa Almaviva. In 2016, she also received the Oldenburg Volksbühne Audience Award. Further highlights of her operatic career include her debuts in Italy at the Teatro di San Carlo, in Switzerland at the Verbier Festival and in Austria with the Klosterneuburg Opera. In Australia, she sang in several productions with Pinchgut Opera Sydney, which specializes in baroque repertoire.
As a concert singer, Valda Wilson has performed with numerous major orchestras, most recently with the Bremen Philharmonic (“Ah! perfido” by Beethoven and his Ninth Symphony in New Year's concerts), the Stuttgart Philharmonic (Strauss songs, Beethoven's Ninth), the Aachen Symphony Orchestra (film music), the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Westphalia (Purcell and Handel), the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg under Marko Letonja (Beethoven's Ninth), the Cappella Aquileia under Marcus Bosch (Beethoven's Ninth, "Die Ruinen von Athen"), the Munich Symphony Orchestra ("Carmina Burana"), the Sächsische Staatskapelle (Mahler songs), the Ulm Philharmonic Orchestra (opera gala) and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (Fauré's Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth).
Concert highlights from previous seasons include performances with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Strauss' “Four Last Songs”, Mahler's Fourth), the Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester (Mahler's “Resurrection Symphony”), the Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra) (Liszt's “Graner Messe”), the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt (Beethoven's Ninth), the Hallé Orchestra (Mozart concert arias), the London Cello Orchestra (Villa-Lobos' “Bachianas Brasileiras” No. 5) and a European tour with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. She was also chosen by Sir Richard Bonynge to be the soloist for the memorial concert in honor of Dame Joan Sutherland at Westminster Abbey, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden under the direction of Sir Antonio Pappano.
Valda Wilson studied at the Sydney Conservatory of Music and has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships. In 2008 she won a scholarship from Opera Foundation Australia for the National Opera Studio London and in 2010 she became a member of the Young Ensemble of the Sächsische Staatsoper (Semperoper). In 2012 she won the International Singing Competition “Stella Maris” and became a member of the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival.