Paula Goodman Wilder was raised in Berkeley, California. In childhood, she played the violin, and attended the Associated Arts School in Wimbledon, London where she studied theatre arts, ballet, and singing, and began learning French. She continued professional dance training until the age of 20, with Grace Doty's Berkeley Conservatory Ballet, for whom she also choreographed several ballets. Later she attended the University of California Berkeley and the University of Poitiers, France, earning bachelors and masters degrees in French literature.
**She studied voice with Janet Parlova at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, in New York with Shirlee Emmons, and Pierre Vallet, and in Berlin with Stewart Emmerson of the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, Hanns Eissler.
**Recent Opera peformances have included Tatiana in EUGENE ONEGIN (North Bay Opera, Fairfield), Minnie in GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEEST for both Berkeley Opera and Opera Santa Barbara, Manon in MANON LESCAUT (West Bay Opera), Lady Macbeth in MACBETH(Berkeley Opera), Hannah in the MERRY WIDOW (Opera Fresca). She made her German début in March 2006 singing Leonora in IL TROVATORE in the Berlin Konzerthaus under the baton of Leo Siberski.
***Performances as soprano soloist in oratorio, chamber and symphonic works have included BEETHOVEN'S NINTH Symphony (Auburn Symphony/Mondavi Center), the VERDI REQUIEM, the BRAHMS REQUIEM, the JEREMIAH SYMPHONY (Leonard Bernstein), Ravel's "Trois chansons de Mallarmé", and Stravinsky's "Three Japanese Lyrics" (all for the Mendocino Music Festival); the POULENC GLORIA (Berkeley Community Chorus); and the Schubert Mass in G (St Helena Chamber Singers).Ms. Wilder's disclosable upcoming engagements as of this writing include Minnie in GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST with Rimrock Opera(October 2007), and MAHLER SONGS OF A WAYFARER with the Redwood Symphony in (April 2008), The STRAUSS FOUR LAST SONGS for the Palo Alto Philharmonic in February 2008, and the role of Senta in DIE FLIEGENDER HOLLAENDER for West Bay Opera (May 2008)Ms. Wilder is most happy of all performing Verdi. Roles she hopes to perform in the future include Elisabeth de Valois in Don Carlos, Amelia/Maria in Simon Boccanegra and Desdemona in Otello. Other wish roles include Janacek's Jenufa, the Shönberg Gurrelieder, and Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.
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