Second-year Adler Fellow Tamara Wapinsky made her War Memorial Opera House debut as Freia (Das Rheingold) this past summer. The Pennsylvania native made her Company debut as The Water in The Little Prince last May and returned as Musetta (La Bohème) this past fall. She created the role of Tallulah Carter in Thomas Pasatieri’s The Hotel Casablanca with the 2007 Merola Opera Program. Other roles in her repertoire include Giorgetta (Il Tabarro), Beatrice Carbone (A View from the Bridge), Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and Folia in Noam Sivan’s The Fruits of Folia. She has also appeared in the title roles of Suor Angelica, Madama Butterfly, and Ariadne auf Naxos . The soprano has appeared in concert as a soloist with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Bay Shore Lyric Opera, Annapolis Opera, and the Tri-Cities Symphony Orchestra. Wapinsky is a past winner of the Giulio Gari Competition, the Licia Albanese Puccini Competition, and the Opera Index Competition, and she received a Joan Kreitzer Snyder Award at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.