Brenna Wells
Soprano Brenna Wells has been praised by the New York Times for her “star turn” as a soloist. She has sung with such acclaimed ensembles as the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Vox Consort, Seraphic Fire, Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, Boston Baroque, Opera Boston, and the Handel & Haydn Society. In 2005 she made her Carnegie Weill Hall debut as a winner of the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition, and recently she returned to Carnegie Hall under the baton of Ton Koopman. Ms. Wells has participated in many festivals and programs, including Songfest, the Vermont Art Song Festival, the London Handel Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Amherst Early Music Festival, Accademia D’Amore, the Parley of Instruments’ Handel in Italy program, and the BBC Proms in London. She was recently selected as one of two singers to perform in the Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini Early Music Seminars in Venice. Recent operatic roles include Galatea in Acis and Galatea, La Poesie and La Paix in Les Arts Florissants, Venus in L’Europe Galante, the Sandman in Hansel and Gretel, and the lead role of the Christian Woman in the world premiere of the opera The Prioress’s Tale, a role she will reprise for a touring production in 2008-09.
