Serenna Wagner
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Serenna Wagner
Mezzo-soprano
Serenna has appeared in all the major oratoria
Serenna Wagner studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music where she graduated with Distinctions in her Postgraduate Diploma and Master of Music in Performance vocal courses. She subsequently trained on the ENO Opera Works programme for young artists, after which she appeared in English National Opera’s productions of Carmen, The Damnation of Faust, Madam Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Fidelio and The Flying Dutchman. Her operatic roles include Carmen, Suzuki, Magdalena and Dido for Heritage Opera, Second Lady for Opera by Definition, Mother Hansel and Gretel; Mother Amahl and the Night Visitors for Opera Anywhere; Dorabella and Cherubino with Flat Pack Music; Ruth for Workbox Opera and Third Lady for Oxford Opera.
She sang the title role in the UK professional première of Halka in Polish and has created the roles of Fanny Price and Paulina in the world premières of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park and Alan E. Williams’ The Arsonists with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, both for Heritage Opera. Serenna has appeared on the concert platform in the UK and in France as a soloist in all the major oratoria including Elijah, Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C Minor; Rossini and Pergolesi’s Stabat Maters and Beethoven’s Mass in C. Concert highlights have included the role of Gypsy Girl in performances of The Diary of One who Vanished under Ed Gardner at The Bridgwater Hall and an appearance with James Gilchrist and The English Baroque Soloists in Stravinsky’s Cantata subsequently broadcast on Radio 3.
Serenna also works as a music therapist, and is a fellow of the Global Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy and a PhD candidate at the Cambridge Institute of Music Therapy. Please visit www.serennawagner.com
