Emily Magee
soprano
Since her German debut as Elsa in Lohengrin at the Staatsoper Berlin and her Bayreuth debut as Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (D: Wolfgang Wagner / D: Daniel Barenboim) in 1997, Emily Magee has sung at all the leading opera houses and festivals, including La Scala in Milan, the Met in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, the Opéra National de Paris, the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals, the State Operas in Vienna, Munich, Hamburg and Berlin, the Zurich Opera House, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Liceu in Barcelona and the Korean National Opera. Emily Magee has worked with leading conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti, Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Gatti, Donald Runnicles, Zubin Mehta, Philippe Jordan, Christian Thielemann, Kent Nagano, Marek Janowski, Simone Young and Franz Welser-Möst.
Concert highlights include Salome with the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt, Rachmaninov's The Bells at the BBC London with Semyon Bychkov, Gurre-Lieder with Mark Elder and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, concerts of Rienzi/Irene in Budapest (Palace of Arts), Beethoven's 9th and Mahler's 8th Symphony at the Vienna Konzerthaus and again Beethoven’s 9th as well as a concert performance of Euryanthe with Marek Janowski at the Dresden Philharmonic, Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony in Hamburg, concert performances of Die Walküre (Act 1) with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young and Verdi's Requiem at the Vienna Musikverein.
