Recently named Best Female Singer of 2024 by the Oper! Awards, internationally acclaimed soprano Corinne Winters has sung over thirty leading roles in major opera houses around the world.
Corinne’s 25/26 opera season includes several house debuts, beginning with Houston Grand Opera as all three heroines in Puccini’s Il trittico, followed by Madama Butterfly at Staatsoper Berlin, Nedda in Pagliacci with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and a double bill of Suor Angelica and Berlioz’s La mort de Cléopâtre for Tiroler Festspiele Erl in a new production by Deborah Warner. Corinne returns to the Grand Théâtre de Genève in a new production of Madama Butterfly by Barbora Horáková Joly, and to the Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofía as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin. In concert, Corinne begins her season at the Slovak National Theatre, performing act two of Jenůfa in a gala honoring legendary soprano Gabriela Beňačková, a piece she will perform later in the season with the Bamberger Symphoniker and under the baton of Jakub Hrůša, and appears in two iconic works by Strauss: the final scene of Salome with Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Daniel Harding, and Vier letzte Lieder with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Münchner Philharmoniker, both conducted by Jakub Hrůša. In addition, Corinne will perform a liederabend inspired by the nineteenth century patroness Nadezhda von Meck with pianist Simon Lepper for Oper Frankfurt, and an opera arias and duets program with Xabier Anduaga for Gstaad Music Festival. Her 25/26 season also includes two recording projects: the title role in Esther, a rediscovered piece by Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann with The Bournemouth Symphony and conductor Kirill Karabits for the Pentatone label, and a disc of Verdi duets with tenor Charles Castronovo and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Constantine Orbelian for Delos Productions.
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 her signature role of 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, Jenůfa at the Royal Ballet and Opera, 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, Rusalka at the Wiener Staatsoper, 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, Jenůfa at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Jenůfa and Mimì in La bohème 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 Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass with the Czech Philharmonic, both for the BBC Proms and the Dvořák Prague Festival, Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with the Bamberger Symphoniker at the Wiener Musikverein, 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, all with Jakub Hrůša, 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 appeared in recital with 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.
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.
