Recently named Best Female Singer of 2024 by the Oper! Awards, soprano Corinne Winters brings her “sumptuous timbre” and “disarming sincerity” to the world’s leading opera houses and symphony orchestras.
Corinne’s 2026/27 season begins with her house debut at Dutch National Opera as Nedda in Pagliacci, before returning to the Janáček Brno Festival for productions of both Jenůfa and Káťa Kabanová. She will then make her debut at Opéra National de Paris as Káťa, before reprising it at the Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden. The season also marks her debut as the title role in Samuel Barber’s Vanessa at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, as well as house debuts with the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Mimì in La bohème, and the Hungarian State Opera as the title role in Madama Butterfly. Additional operatic engagements include concert performances of Moniuszko’s Halka at the Central Square of Music Festival in Warsaw, and Jenůfa with the Bamberger Symphoniker. Also in concert, Corinne will perform Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with the Oslo Philharmonic, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and joins the New York Philharmonic on tour for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. She will be seen in recital at the Janáček Brno Festival with pianist David Mareček, presenting a program of Dvořák, Kaprálová, Janáček, and Korngold songs, also being studio recorded later in the season for Pentatone.
Corinne’s debut at the Salzburger Festspiele in Barrie Kosky’s production of Káťa Kabanová garnered international acclaim, including an International Classical Music Award for Best Opera DVD and a Gramophone Award for Best Opera Recording. In addition to Salzburg, Corinne has performed Káťa at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Seattle Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Janáček Brno International Festival, Staatsoper Stuttgart, and Opéra de Lyon. Other recent opera highlights include Mimì in La bohème at The Metropolitan Opera, all three heroines in Puccini’s Il trittico at Houston Grand Opera, Jenůfa at the Royal Ballet and Opera, Madama Butterfly at Staatsoper Berlin, Rusalka at the Wiener Staatsoper, Nedda in Pagliacci at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Suor Angelica at Tiroler Festspiele Erl, both title roles in Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, which won Best New Production at the 2024 Opera Awards, Moniuszko’s Halka at Teatro Real and Theater an der Wien alongside Piotr Beczała, Madama Butterfly, Suor Angelica, and Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Madama Butterfly and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta at Oper Frankfurt, Madama Butterfly and Jenůfa at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Mimì in La bohème and Jenůfa at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Giorgetta in Il Tabarro and Suor Angelica at La Monnaie / De Munt, and Violetta in La traviata at Royal Ballet and Opera, a role which she has also performed at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Seattle Opera, Opera Australia, English National Opera, Opera Hong Kong, and Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, among others.
Recent concert performances include the final scene of Salome with Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Vier letzte Lieder with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Münchner Philharmoniker, and Bamberger Symphoniker at the Wiener Musikverein, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass with the Czech Philharmonic, both for the BBC Proms and the Dvořák Prague Festival, the soprano soloist in Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and Dvořák’s cantata The Spectre’s Bride with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the title role in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut with Washington Concert Opera, and a Slavic Opera Scenes gala with tenor Pavel Černoch for Smetanova Litomyšl. Other concert highlights include a gala concert of arias with Andrea Battistoni and the Orchestre de Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, the soprano solo in a European tour of Verdi’s Requiem with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, and Les nuits d’été with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra.
Corinne has also appeared as a recitalist at Grand Théâtre de Genève, Gstaad Music Festival, and the George London Foundation, where she was praised by Opera News as “a striking brunette who manages to be simultaneously gamine and seductress, reveal[ing] an arresting, uniquely plum-colored soprano that could pass for mezzo in the middle but explodes with vibrant color on top,” as well as the New York Festival of Song, Tucson Desert Song Festival, and Vocal Arts DC.
Recent recording projects include the title role in Esther, a rediscovered piece by Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann with The Bournemouth Symphony and conductor Kirill Karabits for Pentatone, and a disc of Verdi duets with tenor Charles Castronovo and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Constantine Orbelian, to be released in 2027.
Corinne earned a Master of Music degree in vocal performance from the Peabody Conservatory and a Bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Towson University before appearing as a resident artist at the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. As a master teacher and career mentor, Corinne enjoys sharing her passion for the craft with organizations such as Opera di Roma’s Fabbrica Young Artist Program, YoungArts Miami, Premiere Opera Foundation, National Student Opera Society UK, The University of Arizona, and her alma maters Towson University and the Peabody Conservatory, as well as her private voice studio, and has recently launched the Corinne Winters Mentorship Project, a free mentorship program to help up-and-coming singers bridge the gap between training and career.
