Emily Pogorelc

The rising American soprano Emily Pogorelc is considered one of the most gifted singers of her generation, and is celebrated for her captivating stage presence.

The 2023/24 season has featured a series of role and house debuts. She sang Servilia (La clemenza di Tito) at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, Lisette (La rondine) at the Metropolitan Opera, Ilia (Idomeneo) at the Bavarian State Opera and Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare) in Saint Louis. She also returned to the Semperoper Dresden as Amina (La sonnambula) and sang Servilia at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Lucia di Lammermoor at the Hamburg State Opera. In addition, she appeared with Rolando Villazón in a gala concert in Bratislava, gave a recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington and performed with Camerata Salzburg and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. This summer she makes her debut at the Salzburg Festival. In 2022/23 she made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), sang Shepherd Boy (Tannhäuser) at the Salzburg Easter Festival and performed in Marina Abramović’s 7 Deaths of Maria Callas in Amsterdam.

From 2020 to 2024 Emily Pogorelc was an ensemble member of the Bavarian State Opera, where she appeared in roles such as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Soeur Constance (Dialogues des Carmélites), Xenia (Boris Godunov), Musetta (La bohème) and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel).

As a passionate devotee of contemporary music, she has performed in works including Daniel Schnyder’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird and David Hertzberg’s The Rose Elf. On the concert platform she has appeared in works including Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, the Fauré and Mozart Requiems, and Berio’s Sinfonia at Carnegie Hall.

During her studies at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia she took part in the Académie du Festival d’Aix and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme and made her debut at the Washington National Opera as Cunegonde (Candide). She is a graduate of the Ryan Opera Center of the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Emily Pogorelc received third prize in the 2021 Operalia Competition in Moscow, was a semi-finalist in the Queen Sonja Singing Competition in 2019 and is a winner of the Lynne Cooper Harvey Foundation Award and the Luminarts Classical Voice Fellowship. She has featured on STAGE+ in Deutsche Grammophon’s ‘Rising Stars’ series.