Emily Pogorelc

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Emily Pogorelc
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
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Organizations Bavarian State Opera
Website www.emilypogorelc.com/about/

Emily Pogorelc 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

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin [1] Pogorelc studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, graduating in 2018. [1] She won the Ginette Theano Prize for Most Promising Talent at the first Glyndebourne Festival Opera competition in 2018. [2] Pogorelc made her debut as Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide at the Washington National Opera. [1] She then took part in the Mozart Académie of the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and at the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme [1] of the Aldeburgh Festival. [1] She performed at the Glimmerglass Festival, as Romilda in Handel's Serse as Berenice in Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro , [3] and as Johanna in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd . [1] 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 . [3] [1] She performed several small roles at the Lyric Opera. [1]

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 Idomeneo by W. A. Mozart. [3] She appeared as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro as part of the 2021 Munich Opera Festival. [4] [5] 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. [6] She won a third prize at the Operalia competition in 2021. [7] [8] In 2023, she made her house and role debut as Amina in Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula at Semperoper Dresden, in a new production by Rolando Villazón. [9]

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References

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