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Emma Roberts is a mezzo-soprano and a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio. Emma recently graduated from Royal College of Music (RCM) with an Artist Diploma in Opera.
Emma has performed in many operatic works such as Minskwoman (Flight), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Eduige (Rodelinda), Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), title role in Mascagni’s Zanetto, Hypolita (A Midsummer Night’s Dream).
This year Emma is a Britten Pears Young Artist and participated in the 2022 ‘Arias Week’ led by Antonio Pappano, Julia Faulkner and Gweneth Ann Rand. Emma recently performed in a recital at the Red House in Snape, as well as a recital at the Oxford Lieder Festival.
Emma has been a soloist in several concert performances such as Athenaeum Club lunchtime recital curated by Sir Thomas Allen, Raynham Hall recital curated by Michael Chance CBE, Iain Burnside’s Ludlow English Song Festival 2021, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Mark Biggins, Turnage dramatic scena Twice Through the Heart and Verdi Requiem at Leith Hill Musical Festival.
A Ferrier 2022 prize winner, Emma was awarded both the Loveday Song Prize for Debussy’s Colloque Sentimental and overall 2nd Prize. In March 2022 Emma won 1st Prize in the Joan Chissell Schumann Competition at RCM.
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Updated January 2023. This biography should not be reproduced without asking permission from the National Opera Studio.