From 2016 Wilson was supported and mentored by the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation. In 2017 Wilson won the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Dunedin Aria contest. She was asked to be a soprano soloist for a Spanish Baroque concert series with the
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in
Sydney, in a performance that incorporated contemporary circus performers. She returned to sing in the orchestra's
Bittersweet Obsessions concert. The same year she received a scholarship to attend Patricia Hurley’s Italian for NZ Opera Singers Masterclasses and Concerts in Italy as part of the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Opera Studies Programme. In 2018 Wilson was a semi-finalist in the
Lexus Song Quest and became a Dame Malvina Major Foundation Emerging Artist with New Zealand Opera. In September she was soprano soloist in a
Dunedin Symphony Orchestra performance of
Carmina Burana, her last New Zealand role before she left to study overseas. in 2021
New Zealand Opera production of ''
Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator'' She took up a position with Pittsburgh Opera with a two-year contract, which was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing her to return to New Zealand. On her return she sang Lisa in
Bellini's
La sonnambula, to an audience of 200 in an outdoor performance in
Days Bay near Wellington staged by
Rhona Fraser. After working for some years on the part with composer and musician
Tim Finn, she played the role Purea in the 2021 New Zealand Opera premiere of ''
Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator''. All three performances sold out, and she was praised as "one of
Aotearoa’s most glorious sopranos." In 2021 she performed a "vivacious" Zelina in
Wellington Opera Company's production of
Don Giovanni, and Marzelline in an Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s concert performance of
Fidelio. recognising her “track record, talent, determination and potential”. The award, funded by Joan Egan through the Dame Malvina Major Foundation, supports the career development of talented young opera singers handpicked by the Foundation. Wilson says her favourite roles are Adina in
The Elixir of Love, which she understudied for in the New Zealand Opera production, and Susanna in Mozart's
The Marriage of Figaro, which she performed in San Francisco (especially the final aria "Deh vieni, non tardar"). She is a light lyric
coloratura soprano, with a voice suited to the Italianate operas of
Donizetti and
Mozart. == References ==