Emma Roberts Mezzo-soprano
www.emmarobertsmezzosoprano.com
07487725663
London - UK
2023/24 Orsay-Royaumont Young Artist
22/23 National Opera Studio
22-23 Britten Pears Y/A, Samling Y/A and Oxford Lieder Emerging Artist
21/22 RCM' International Opera Studio - under tutelage of Brindley Sherratt and Simon Lepper
PRIZES
2022 Ferrier Competition - 2nd Prize + Loveday Song Prize
2022 Joan Chissel Schumann Competition - 1st prize
2024 Musicians Company Recital Award
2024 Josep Palet Competition in Barcelona - 3rd Prize + Early Music Prize
2024 International Schumann Competition in Zwickau - 3rd prize
2025 Bampton Young Singers’ Competition - 2nd prize
Roles
Upcoming;
Lucretia - Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Hampstead Garden Opera April 2026
Mahler 2 - Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra June 2026
Carmen - title role, Devon Opera July 2026
Previous;
Dido in Dido and Aeneas at St Endellion Festival August 2025
conducted by Seb Gillot directed by Victoria Newlyn
Polina cover in Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame with Garsington Opera 2025
Teseo and Taurid cover in Handel's Arianna at London Handel Festival conducted by David Bates with La Nuova Musica 2024
Lorca cover in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, Welsh National Opera Autumn 2023
Zanetto in Mascagni’s Zanetto, performed at Aalborg Opera Festival
Minsk woman in Dove’s Flight, RCM production, MD Michael Rosewell - May 2022
Hänsel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, RCM production, MD Michael Rosewell, directed by Stephen Barlow - January 2022
Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, RCM production, MD Michael Rosewell, directed by Polly Graham - November 2021
Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo Ed Euridice and Zanetto in Mascagni’s Zanetto, Barefoot Opera, MD Lesley-Anne Sammons, directed by Lysanne van Overbeek - August to October 2021
Eduige in Handel’s Rodelinda, MD Michael Rosewell, directed by Jo Davies -RCM production streamed online - September 2021
Lola in Opera Makers’ production of Cavalleria Rusticana, MD Panaretos Kyriatzidis -February 2020
Concerts;
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Recital with pianist Francesca Lauri - Festival de la Gente 2025
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Alto solo Rossini Petite Messe - Cambridge Summer Music Festival 2025
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Alto solo Mendelssohn’s Elijah - Sheldonian Theatre 2025
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2023-25 song recitals at Musée D’Orsay with Orsay-Royaumont
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February 2024 recital at Wigmore Hall for Musicians Company
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December 2023 Verdi Requiem with University of Manchester
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October 2023 Elgar Sea Pictures with Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra
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Soloist Athenaeum Club recital curated by Sir Thomas Allen
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Soloist at Raynham Hall concert curated by Michael Chance CBE,
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Young Artist for Iain Burnside's Ludlow English Song Festival 2021,
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Mezzo-soprano solo in Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky (RCM symphony, conducted by Martin Brabbins and Mark Biggins)
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Mark Anthony Turnage dramatic song cycle for mezzo and chamber orchestra ‘Twice Through the Heart’ (RCM New Perspectives, Turnage residency)
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Masterclasses with with Sir Mark Elder, Antonio Pappano, Julius Drake, Julia Faulkner, Gweneth Ann Rand, Sarah Connolly, Michael Chance and Ann Murray