EMMA PETERSEN

Lyric coloratura Emma Petersen’s recent roles include her highly anticipated role debut as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Contessa di Folleville in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, Jean in Brigadoon, Yvettte in the Western Canadian premiere of Weinberg’s The Passenger, Orpheus in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, La Fée in Massenet’s Cendrillon, as well as understudying the roles of Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes D’Hoffmann. She has performed concert and recital works such as Strauss’ Brentano Lieder, Edvard Grieg’s Sechs Lieder, and Prevost’s Musiques Peintes. She has worked in masterclass settings with Jane Archibald, Barbara Bonney, Sasha Cook, Heidi Stober, Jennifer Johnson-Cano, and Corinne Winters. In 2017 she performed in the University of Miami Frost School of music’s summer program in Salzburg, Austria, and she attended Taos Opera Institute in 2018. She was the featured soloist in the finale episode of The Amazing Race Canada’s 2022 season, performing Libiamo from Verdi’s La Traviata. She produced and performed in her own recital entitled “Snowfall and Psalms”, a charity concert benefitting Sombrilla in Edmonton, AB. She received her Bachelors of Music in Voice from the University of Arizona and her Masters of Music from the University of British Columbia.