A large opulent building with columns is seen across a town square.
National Theatre, Munich
In a courtyard with a honeycomb pattern stands a large building with a semicircular glass front under a curved concrete frame. A spire can be seen in the reflection. Behind and to the right is a large rectangular building with dozens of small rectangular windows.
Opernhaus Dortmund
A mushroom-coloured building, with the words “Deutsche Oper am Rhein” in one corner. Trees are in the foreground on the left and right, and we also see a statue of a man.
Opernhaus Düsseldorf
A large modern glass building on a clean street with tram lines. Mounted on the building is a logo reading “Oper Frankfurt”.
Oper Frankfurt
A stone bridge crosses a river. On the far side is a rounded building with signage reading “Nationale opera & ballet”.
Stopera, Amsterdam
A large stone building with columns and carvings, situated in a plaza.
Grand Theatre, Warsaw
A large brick and stone building, with signage reading “Royal Academy of Music”.
Royal Academy of Music, London
A large brick and stone building, with signage reading “Royal College of Music”.
Royal College of Music, London
A large, historic white building with a stepped gable is illuminated at night. The building is next to a modern glass-fronted structure and a sculpture.
Reitstadel, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
A wide, serene lake is nestled between slopes of mountains, with a small town visible on the bank.
Silvaplana, Switzerland
Edith Wiens, smiling

Edith Wiens

About Edith Wiens

The soprano Edith Wiens has collaborated with the world’s foremost conductors - Kurt Masur, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit – and their orchestras. Her operatic appearances included principal Mozart roles at La Scala with Sir Georg Solti, Glyndebourne with Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Tokyo with Seiji Ozawa. Renowned as a recitalist, Edith Wiens sang often in the Musikverein Vienna, and in the Wigmore Hall of London, among many other venues.

Edith Wiens is Faculty Emeritus of the Juilliard School in New York, where she served as Chair of the voice faculty. As founder and director of the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie, she also works regularly with the singers of the Royal College of Music, and is Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy in London. She gives yearly masterclasses at the Operacampus3033 in Switzerland, and is the regular teacher of young artist programs in the opera-houses of Munich, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Dresden, Essen, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, among others. Her students can be heard world-wide in many major opera houses and festivals.

Edith Wiens, sitting near a grand piano in a concert hall, looks towards the camera, smiles, and shrugs.

Edith Wiens is an Officer of the Order of Canada and the recipient of several honorary doctorate degrees. She resides in Munich with her husband Kai Moser. Their two sons, Johannes Moser and Benjamin Moser, are also musicians.

Students

Following her time at the Juilliard School in New York, Prof. Dr. Edith Wiens has gone on to coach young artists in the studios of many renowned opera houses, including those in Munich, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Düsseldorf, Dresden, and Essen/Dortmund, as well as at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and the Atelier Lyrique in Montreal. Naturally, working with the singers at the International Meistersinger Academy is also a source of great joy for Edith Wiens.

Her students perform on stages across the globe, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Covent Garden in London, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, and the Salzburg Festival. They have also participated in – and won first prizes at – prestigious competitions such as Operalia and the Glyndebourne Cup.

Among many others, some of her students include Avery Amereau, Benjamin Appl, Erika Baikoff, Mikaela Bennett, John Brancy, Rihab Chaieb, Wallis Giunta, Samantha Hankey, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Pawel Horodyski, Katheryna Kasper, Hyoyoung Kim, Symon Komasa, James Ley, Tareq Nazmi, Ema Nikolovska, Jakub Josuf Orlinski, Xenia Puskarz-Thomas, Alex Rosen, Julie Roset, Emily Sierra, Virginie Verrez, Nils Wanderer, and Hubert Zapior.