Emily Edmonds

Praised as a “superb singer-actor” with a “coloured and thrilling” voice, Australian mezzo-soprano Emily Edmonds is sought out for her interpretations of both traditional and contemporary work. Recent season highlights include Cherubino (SOSA), Saariaho’s Quatre Instants (Sydney Chamber Opera; Phoenix Central Park), and Awakening Shadow (SCO). In the 2020-2021 season, Ms. Edmonds reprised the role of L’enfant in L’enfant et les sortilèges (Vopera, London Philharmonic Orchestra).

In 2019-2020, Ms. Edmonds garnered widespread critical acclaim for her US and UK premiere performances of Venables’ Denis & Katya (Opera Philadelphia; Music Theatre Wales). Also during this period, Ms. Edmonds debuted the role of Dorabella in Così fan tutte (Classical Opera Company, London). In 2018-2019, she returned to the Royal Opera House to perform Varvara in Katya Kabanova (Royal Opera House), debuted the title role in L’enfant et les sortilèges (Komische Oper Berlin), performed Semira in Hasse’s Artaserse (Pinchgut Opera), and sang Mlle. Dangeville in Adriana Lecouvreur (Verbier Festival).

Ms. Edmonds enjoyed a two-year tenure as a Young Artist with the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artist Programme. In the 2016-2017 Royal Opera House season, she sang Agathe/Dargelos in Philip Glass’ Les Enfants Terribles, Madrigal Singer in Manon Lescaut, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Tebaldo in Don Carlo, and covered Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Emilia in Otello, and Dorabella in Così fan tutte. In 2015-2016, Ms Edmonds sang Aglaea/Atropos/Bacchus in Orpheus (ROH at Shakespeare’s Globe), Kätchen in Werther, Suor Cercatrice in Suor Angelica, and the world premiere of Philip Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis. Also in 2015, she made her company debut with Pinchgut Opera as Asteria in Vivaldi’s Bajazet.