Emily Magee

Soprano

Background: Emily Magee studied at Westminster Choir College, Indiana University, and completed her training at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where she made her professional debut.

OA Repertoire: Elsa/ Lohengrin

Other Companies:

Her career has taken her to all the leading opera houses, including La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Zurich Opera, Hamburg and  Dresden State Operas, Berlin’s Opera Houses, Barcelona’s Liceu and the Paris Opera. In recent years, her career has focused on the works of Richard Strauss, such as the Empress/Die Frau ohne Schatten, Countess/Capriccio, Ariadne auf Naxos/title role, Chrysothemis/ Elektra, Puccini heroines Tosca and Minnie/ La Fanciulla del West and all important Wagner roles in her voice category such as Elisabeth/ Tannhäuser, Isolde/ Tristan und Isolde, Walküre/ Sieglinde. A very successful production of Der Zwerg (Ghita) could only be streamed in 2020 and will be revived live in January 2022.

Recordings:

CDs: Salome, Lohengrin, Meistersinger, Rusalka, War Requiem
DVDs: Die Walküre, Tosca, Ariadne auf Naxos, Peter Grimes, Otello, Le Nozze di Figaro, Pique Dame, Der Zwerg, La Fanciulla del West