Edith Wiens

Edith Wiens OC (born 9 June 1950) is a Canadian opera, recital and concert singer with a soprano voice.

[1] Wiens, daughter of a Mennonite pastor, grew up in Vancouver where she finished high school at the age of 16.

She has worked with well known conductors like Daniel Barenboim, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Klaus Tennstedt and Sir Georg Solti.

Wiens had her operatic debut in 1986 at the Glyndebourne Festival as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni under Bernard Haitink.

She is also a regular guest of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Royal College, and is repeatedly engaged to teach the young ensembles at the opera houses of Munich, Frankfurt, Zurich and Oslo.