Emily Pogorelc

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Emily Pogorelc
BornJuly 1996 (age 29)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
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Organizations Bavarian State Opera
Website www.emilypogorelc.com/about/

Emily Pogorelc (born July 1996) [1] is an American operatic soprano. She is a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and has performed leading roles internationally.

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Life and career

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin [2] Pogorelc studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, graduating in 2018. [2] She won the Ginette Theano Prize for Most Promising Talent at the first Glyndebourne Festival Opera competition in 2018. [3] Pogorelc made her debut as Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide at the Washington National Opera. [2] She then took part in the Mozart Académie of the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and at the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme [2] of the Aldeburgh Festival. [2] She performed at the Glimmerglass Festival, as Romilda in Handel's Serse , as Berenice in Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro , [4] and as Johanna in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd . [2] Pogorelc was a member of the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where she covered Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo , Zerlina in Don Giovanni , and the Voice of the Forest Bird and Woglinde in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen . [4] [2] She performed several small roles at the Lyric Opera. [2]

Pogorelc became a member of the Bavarian State Opera in 2020, where her first role was Zaunschlüpfer in Die Vögel by Walter Braunfels, followed by Gretel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel , Sofia in Rossini's Il signor Bruschino , Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore , Musetta in Puccini's La bohème , and Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo . [4] She appeared as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro as part of the 2021 Munich Opera Festival. [5] [6] She performed there as Lauretta in a 2021 revival of a 2017 production of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi , directed by Lotte de Beer and conducted Bertrand de Billy, alongside Ambrogio Maestri in the title role. [7] She won a third prize at the Operalia competition in 2021. [8] [9] In 2023, she made her house and role debut as Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula at the Semperoper Dresden, in a new production by Rolando Villazón. [10]

Pogorelc made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Lisette in Puccini’s La rondine in March 2024, subsequently performing Musetta and Pamina there as well. [11] In 2025, she made her house and role debuts as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier by R. Strauss at the Opernhaus Zürich [12] and as Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff at the Vienna State Opera. [13]

References

  1. ↑ Emily C Pogorelc in the U.S., Index to Public Records, 1994-2019
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Emily Pogorelc / Soprano". Lyric Opera of Chicago. 2022. Archived from the original on April 20, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Emily Pogorelc". rhinegold.co.uk. March 27, 2018. Archived from the original on April 11, 2022. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 "Emily Pogorelc / Soprano" (in German). Bavarian State Opera. 2022. Archived from the original on April 22, 2022. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Munich Opera Festival - Le nozze di Figaro Reviews". theoperacritic.com. 2022. Archived from the original on April 22, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Emily Pogorelc". resmusica.com (in French). July 18, 2021. Archived from the original on April 15, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
  7. ↑ Servidei, Laura (June 13, 2021). "Puccini's Il trittico: a successful revival in Munich". bachtrack.com. Archived from the original on August 18, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Winners 2021". Operalia. 2022. Archived from the original on September 20, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Emily Pogorelc". Operalia. 2022. Archived from the original on April 22, 2022. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Emily Pogorelc". Semperoper . Retrieved October 17, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Emily Pogorelc". www.metopera.org. Retrieved November 28, 2024.
  12. ↑ www.update.ch, update AG. "Der Rosenkavalier". www.opernhaus.ch (in German). Retrieved January 25, 2026.
  13. ↑ "Emily Pogorelc als "Nannetta" in "Falstaff"". Vienna State Opera archive. Retrieved January 25, 2026.


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