Hailed as a singer with a "gorgeous voice that is both rich and agile", Vilma Indra Vitols has a repertoire encompassing opera, oratorio, cabaret, and new music.

A graduate of the Opera Division at the University of Toronto, Vilma sang numerous roles there including Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro) and Iolanthe (Iolanthe). Other operatic credits include the title role in Bizet's Carmen for Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, Nancy in Britten's Albert Herring with the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, England, Hansel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel with the Canadian Opera Company's Outreach tour, Lucy Brown in Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera with Vancouver Opera. Vilma made her Pacific Opera Victoria debut as Olga in Eugene Onegin and sang the role of Maria Picariello in John Estacio's and John Murrell's acclaimed opera Filumena at the Banff Centre. Vilma has sung numerous roles with Opera Atelier, including Nymphe Guerrière and Vénus in Lully's Persée, and 3rd and 2nd Ladies in The Magic Flute. Most recently she reprised her roles as Hyale in Charpentier's Actéon and Mercury and 2nd Witch in Dido and Aeneas for their 2007 tour to Seoul, Korea.

Vilma has been the alto soloist in many oratorios, including Bach's St. John Passion, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass and Missa Sancti Nicolai, the Requiems of Mozart and Duruflé. In demand as a concert singer, Vilma has been featured soloist with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Aldeburgh Connection, Niagara Chamber Music Festival, and Toronto Operetta Theatre. As a recipient of the Royal Over-Seas League Scholarship, she gave several recitals in London, England and is a frequent recitalist for the Latvian communities in Canada and the United States. As the First Prize winner at the 22nd Annual Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition for Voice 1999, Vilma completed a recital tour across Canada in the fall of 1999.

Vilma has performed with the Talisker Players in previous seasons, including at the 2006 Elora and Ottawa Chamber Music Festivals, and is looking forward to their next collaboration in February 2008.

Other performance credits include a starring role as "the Vamp" in a short video for BRAVO! called Divine Comedy, "the Devil" in Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale with The Friends of Gravity, and a Jaridian soldier on Earth: Final Conflict. In the summer of 2001, Vilma performed the role of Caroline in Maybe it's Mabeleen at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

A frequent performer of new music, Vilma has performed with Continuum at the Massey Hall New Music Festival and has premiered works by various Canadian composers including Tālivaldis Ķeniņš and Abigail Richardson. In the summer of 2000, she was alto soloist in the world premiere of Recordare by Latvian-Canadian composer Imant Raminsh and in the Canadian premiere of Penderecki's Credo, both works conducted by the composers at the Banff Centre. In May 2001, she premiered a new music and dance work flotsam and jetsam by Toronto composer Juliet Palmer as part of the Open Ears Festival in Kitchener, reprising her role in the Toronto premiere of this work at Artword Theatre in December 2002. In February 2003, Vilma made her debut with Modern Baroque Opera in Vancouver performing the title role in the premiere of Peter Hannan's and Peter Hinton's The Diana Cantata. "Possibly the most astute and talented singer, and actor, I've ever worked with.", says MBO's Kate Hutchinson. With Toca Loca, she has premiered new works by Inouk Demers, James Rolfe and Erik Ross. Last season she performed with urbanvessel to sold-out audiences in SLIP, a site-specific new music and dance collaborative project at Toronto's Harrison Baths under the auspices of the X Avant Festival, with music by Juliet Palmer, words by Anna Chatterton, choreography by Yvonne Ng.

Vilma continues to explore the cabaret repertoire, most recently this summer in recitals in Latvia and Germany featuring the music of Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler, with her interview and final recital in Riga to be broadcast on Latvian National Radio this fall.

Prior to full-time music studies, Vilma completed an M.A. in Philosophy.