Performer Biography

Winner of the 2021 Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts from Yale University and recipient of a 2020 Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Lisl Wangermann is a lyric soprano from Dallas, Texas. She has performed with the CIM Opera Theater, Opera Western Reserve, the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Opera Theatre of Yale College, and the Yale Baroque Opera Project. Her previous roles include Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Cendrillon (Massenet’s Cendrillon), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Della (The Gift of the Magi), and Euridice (Rossi’s Orfeo). In 2023, Lisl was a semifinalist for the Dallas Opera’s Lone Star Vocal Competition, a finalist for the Nightingale Young Artist Competition, and won the Max Berman Prize in Voice from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Lisl graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 2021 and completed her Master of Music degree in 2023 at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is currently pursuing the Artist Diploma at CIM.