Serenna Wagner studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she graduated with Distinctions in her Postgraduate Diploma and Master of Music in Performance vocal courses. She subsequently trained on the ENO Opera Works programme for young artists, after which she appeared in English National Opera’s productions of Carmen, The Damnation of Faust, Madam Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Fidelio and The Flying Dutchman. Her operatic roles include Carmen, Suzuki, Maddalena and Dido for Heritage Opera, Second Lady for Opera by Definition, Mother Hansel and Gretel and Mother Amahl and the Night Visitors for Opera Anywhere; Dorabella with Flatpack Music; Ruth Pirates of Penzance for Workbox Opera' and Flora and Third Lady for Oxford Opera. She sang the title role in the UK professional première of Moniuszko’s Halka, and created the roles of Fanny Price and Paulina in the respective world premières of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park and Alan E. Williams’ The Arsonists with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, both for Heritage Opera. Serenna has appeared on the concert platform in the UK and in France as a soloist in many major oratorios, including Elijah, Messiah, and The Dream of Gerontius; Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C Minor; Rossini and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater; and Beethoven’s Mass in C. Concert highlights have included the role of Gypsy Girl in performances of The Diary of One who Vanished under Ed Gardner at The Bridgwater Hall, and an appearance with James Gilchrist and The English Baroque Soloists in Stravinsky’s Cantata, subsequently broadcast on Radio 3.