Paula Goodman Wilder, soprano, sings the role of Senta in Der fliegende Holländer, following her West Bay Opera debut singing the title role in Manon Lescaut.

In the two years since her West Bay Opera debut, Ms. Wilder has debuted as Leonora (Il trovatore) with the Berlin Konzerthaus, and as Minnie (La fanciulla del West)  with Rimrock Opera and Opera Santa Barbara. She returned to Berkeley Opera in the role of Minnie and to North Bay Opera as Tatyana (Eugene Onegin). As concert soloist, she was featured with the 2006 and 2007 Mendocino Music Festivals in Stravinsky’s Three Japanese Lyrics, Ravel’s Trois Chansons de Mallarmé, and Janacek’s Folk Songs, with theAuburn Symphony in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with the Palo Alto Philharmonic in Strauss’s Four Last Songs, and with the Symphony of the Redwoods in Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer.

Ms. Wilder has recently been accepted by Evelyn Lear into the Wagner Society of Washington DC’s Emerging Singers Program.