Emily Pogorelc

Emily Pogorelc
BornJuly 1996
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Education
Occupation
OrganizationsBavarian State Opera
Websitewww.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.

Life

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 Idomeneo by W. A. Mozart.[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 Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula at 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 in La bohème there as well.[11]

References

  1. ^ Emily C Pogorelc in the U.S., Index to Public Records, 1994-2019
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "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. ^ a b c "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 - Personen - Semperoper Dresden". www.semperoper.de. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
  11. ^ "Emily Pogorelc". www.metopera.org. Retrieved November 28, 2024.