From: New York City, New York. LA Opera: Ghita in The Dwarf (2024, debut).

Emily Magee is internationally celebrated for her operatic interpretations of Wagner, Strauss, Verdi and Puccini. She has brought to life such roles as Elsa, Elisabeth, Tosca, Chrysothemis, Sieglinde, Marschallin, Kaiserin, Ariadne, Arabella and Minnie on leading opera stages in Europe, North America and Asia. Emily has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Scala in Milan, Zurich, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Munich, Frankfurt, Barcelona, San Francisco as well as some of Europe’s finest summer festivals including the Salzburg Festival and the Bayreuth Festival.  Emily has sung under the direction of such conductors as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christian Thielemann, Franz Welser-Möst and Semyon Bychkov.

Also a consummate concert artist, Emily has performed concerts throughout Europe and the USA.  Her recorded operas have been nominated for a Grammy Award and for Gramophone Video of the year. 

Her most recent appearances include the title role of Turandot at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Elsa in Lohengrin at Opera Australia in Melbourne, Elsa and Gutrune in Leipzig, the title role of Tosca in Barcelona, and The Girl of the Golden West with the Cleveland Orchestra. 

Learn more at EmilyMagee.com.