Rising American soprano Emily Pogorelc is considered one of the most gifted singers of her generation and is praised by critics and audiences alike for her soaring, unique voice and her captivating stage presence.
Emily Pogorelc’s 23/24 season is marked by five major role and house debuts, respectively. She begins the season with a house and role debut singing Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito at the Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, a role which is also the vehicle for her debut with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2024. The soprano returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich for her final season as an ensemble member, making her role debut as Ilia in Idomeneo and reprising her successful portrayals of Pamina in Zauberflöte and Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore. She returns to the Semperoper Dresden for a revival of Rolando Villazón’s production of La Sonnambula, a role she debuted to critical acclaim in the 22/23 season. In her native US, Emily Pogorelc makes her eagerly awaited house debut as Lisette in Puccini’s La rondine at the Met. She makes another house and role debut as, Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis before closing the season as Servilia in a concert performance of La Clemenza di Tito at Festival Aix-en-Provence, led by celebrated conductor Raphaël Pichon.
On the concert stage, Emily Pogorelc joins Rolando Villazón for an open-air gala in Bratislava. She collaborates with the Camerata Salzburg, presenting Mozart arias, and later returns to Salzburg to perform Mozart’s Requiem with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg under the baton of Pablo Heras-Casado.
Last season, Emily Pogorelc made six role debuts, most notably a celebrated portrayal of Amina in La sonnambula at Semperoper Dresden and Juliette in Roméo et Juliette in her hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She made her recital debut at the Kennedy Center in DC and appeared in concert at the Mozartwoche festival in Salzburg. As an ensemble member of Bayerische Staatsoper, she made debuts as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Soeur Constance in Dialogues des Carmelites and Xenia in Boris Gudonov, and appeared as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel and Vierte Magd in Elektra under the baton of Maestro Vladimir Jurowski. Pogorelc’s schedule also included performances as Der Hirt in Tännhäuser at the Salzburg Osterfestspiele, Norma in Marina Abramovic’s 7 Deaths of Maria Callas at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam, and a Blumenmädchen in Parsifal with Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic. She also became part of Deutsche Grammophon’s new series “Rising Stars” on STAGE+, showcasing the best young talents in classical music.
In 2022, Ms. Pogorelc became an Associate Artist with the The Mozartists in London and she was featured in their third volume in their acclaimed ‘Sturm und Drang’ series. The recording features her in arias by Schweitzer and Paisiello.
During the 2021/2022 season, she returned to Bayerische Staatsoper where she performed Adina in L’elisir d’amore, Musetta in La bohème, and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, among other roles. As a guest artist, she debuted at the Glyndebourne Festival as Cherubino, while in concert she performed Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Bertrand de Billy, Mozart concert arias in a concert with Rolando Villazon and the Luxembourg Philharmonie and a program of arias written and heard by Mozart in 1771 with Classical Opera in London. She also was a prize winner in the 2021 Operalia Competition at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
In the 2020-2021 season, Ms. Pogorelc, as part of her inaugural season as an Ensemble member with the Bayerische Staatsoper, sang Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Sofia in Il signor Bruschino, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Ein Liebespaar/Suor Genovieffa/Lauretta in Il Trittico, the soprano soloist in a Baroque concert presentation, Violetta Valéry in Marina Abramović’s 7 Deaths of Maria Callas and die Zaunschlüpfer in Walter Braufels’ Die Vögel.
