Emily Edmonds

Praised as a ‘superb singer-actor’ with a ‘coloured and thrilling’ voice, Australian mezzo-soprano Emily Edmonds is sought after internationally for her interpretations of both traditional and contemporary work.

Recent season highlights include Varvara in Katya Kabanova (ROH Covent Garden), Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (State Opera South Australia) and L’enfant in L’enfant et les sortilèges (London Philharmonic Orchestra and Komische Oper Berlin).

Previously, Emily garnered widespread critical acclaim for her American and British premiere performances of Venables’ Denis & Katya (Opera Philadelphia; Music Theatre Wales). She made her début as Dorabella in Così fan tutte for Classical Opera Company, London and sang Mlle. Dangeville in Adriana Lecouvreur (Verbier Festival). In her native Australia, she has sung Semira in Hasse’s Artaserse and Asteria in Vivaldi’s Bajazet (Pinchgut Opera) and featured in Saariaho’s Quatre Instants and Britten/Styles’ Canticles/Awakening Shadow (Sydney Chamber Opera); she has also sung Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the Sydney Symphony.

Emily 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, she 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.

In 2025, Emily will sing the title role in Opera Australia’s production of Cinderella and Cherubino in their Le nozze di Figaro.