video still from Rimrock Opera’s Fanciulla with Randy Locke, tenor

with Doug Nagel,in West Bay Opera’s Flying Dutchman, photo by Otak Jump.

Paula Wilder-Gaubert              (formerly Goodman Wilder)

biography

with Patrycja Poluchowicz in West Bay Opera’s Der Freischütz , Otak Jump. photo

with Gabriel Reoyo-Pazos in Manon Lescaut, West Bay Opera

Paula Wilder’s opera performances have included Cio-cio-san in Madama Butterfly for Utah Lyric Opera; Agathe in Der Freischütz,  Senta in Der Fliegender Holländer, and Manon in Manon Lescaut for West Bay Opera, Minnie in Fanciulla del West for Rimrock Opera (Billings, Montana) , Berkeley Opera , and Santa Barbara Opera; Leonora in Il trovatore in the Berlin Konzerthaus, with the Cottbuser Staatstheater  orchestra ; Lady Macbeth for Berkeley Opera ; Tatyana in Eugene Onegin for North Bay Opera (Fairfield, California),  and Hanna Glavari for Opera Fresca’s Merry Widow (Mendocino, California).

Most recent symphonic appearances include Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with the Symphony of the Redwoods (April 2008),   Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the Palo Alto Philharmonic (February 2008),  and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Auburn Symphony in the Mondavi Center (April 2007).

Ms. Wilder is also frequently featured as soloist at the Mendocino Music Festival where she has performed the Verdi Messa da Requiem, Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem,  and Bernstein’s “Jeremiah” Symphony.  For the Mendocino Music Festival she has also participated in many of Susan Waterfall’s chamber music events, performing:  Ravel (Trois Chansons de Mallarmé), Stravinski (Three Japanese Songs), and songs of Brahms, and Janacek.

A native of Berkeley, Ms. Wilder holds bachelors and masters degrees in French Literature from UC Berkeley, and attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in Vocal Performance.  Ms. Wilder now lives in Poitiers, France.