Emily Edmonds

Current season engagements include Denis & Katya with Opera Philadelphia and Music Theatre Wales, Dorabella Cosi fan tutte in Classical Opera Company, Varvara in Katya Kabanova Rome Opera.

Last season debuts include L’Enfant in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges for Komische Oper Berlin, Varvara for Katya Kabanova in Royal Opera House, Semira in Artaserse in Pinchgut Opera.

Australian mezzo-soprano Emily Edmonds was a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2015-2017. She is currently an Associate Artist with Classical Opera Company.

Roles at the ROH Covent Garden include Musician in Manon Lescaut, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Tebaldo in Don Carlos, cover Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Magdalena in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Emilia in Otello, Agathe / Dargelos in Les Enfants Terribles.

Aglaea/Atropos/Bacchus Orpheus, Shakespeare’s Globe, Alms Sister Suor Angelica, Käthchen Werther, 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Opera House, London), Asteria Bajazet (Pinchgut Opera), Kate Julian Owen Wingrave, Into the Little Hill (Sydney Chamber Opera), Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro (Opera New England), Second Lady Die Zauberflöte (Pacific Opera), Varvara Kat’a Kabanova, Musette La bohème Leoncavallo (Jette Parker Young Artists Programme)

Emily holds a First Class Honours degree in Vocal Performance from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and trained on the Young Artists Programme at Pacific Opera Company. She was the Dame Nellie Melba Scholar for the Melba Opera Trust.