- Dialogues des Carmélites – Sister St Charles
Serenna Wagner Sister St Charles studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music where she graduated with Distinctions in her Postgraduate Diploma and Masters degree courses. She subsequently trained on the English National Opera Opera Works programme after which she appeared in their productions of Carmen, The Damnation of Faust, Madam Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Fidelio and The Flying Dutchman. Her solo roles include Carmen (Carmen), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Maddalena (Rigoletto) and Dido (Dido and Aeneas) for Heritage Opera, Second Lady for Opera by Definition, Mother (Hansel and Gretel), Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors) for Opera Anywhere; Dorabella (Così fan tutte) with Flatpack Music, Ruth (The Pirates of Penzance) for Workbox Opera and Flora (La Traviata) and Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte) for Oxford Opera. She sang the title role in the UK première of Halka in Polish and 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 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.