Emma Matthews

Soprano

Emma Matthews

Australia’s most highly awarded soprano, Emma Matthews performs with all the Australian opera companies, orchestras and festivals, and is Head of Classical Voice and Opera Studies at West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, ECU, Perth.

Emma’s repertoire includes the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Opera Australia); for Opera Australia: Lulu, Lakmé, Lucia di Lammermoor, Partenope, (title roles); Amina (La Sonnambula), Philomele (The Love of the Nightingale), the four heroines (The Tales of Hoffmann), Violetta (La Traviata), Fiorilla (The Turk in Italy), Gilda (Rigoletto), Giulietta (I Capuletti ei Montecchi), Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), Almirena (Rinaldo), Morgana (Alcina), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Marie (La Fille du Regiment), Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Zwanntie (Batavia), Leila (The Pearlfishers), Rosina (The Barber of Seville).

Emma’s recordings include Emma Matthews in Monte Carlo (Deutsche Grammophon/ABC Classics), Mozart arias and Agony and Ecstasy (ABC Classics) and Opera Australia productions of La Traviata and Lakme on DVD.

Emma Matthews