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Emily Helena Rose is a classically trained mezzo-soprano, T.V./Film and stage actor, voice artist, multi-instrumentalist, conductor, director, and teacher based in the Capital Region of New York. Emily teaches voice, piano, violin and guitar to students of all ages. She has a vested interest in teaching performers with vocal disorders and performers in vocal transition. She holds a Bachelor’s of Music (Voice Performance), Master’s of Music (Opera and Musical Theatre Performance, Vocal Pedagogy), and Master’s of Education and Science (Communications Sciences and Disorders).
Originally from Indiana, Emily has performed regionally, in NYC, and abroad with Phoenix Entertainment, NY Lyric Opera, Amore Opera, Amato Opera, American Opera Project, Dicapo Opera, Opera Company of Brooklyn, Regina Opera, NYC Opera VOX, Bayview Music Festival, AIMS Graz, and has performed with La Lirica Musica, the Puccini Opera Festival and the Rossini Opera Festival.
Emily’s first love was the violin and has played since she was seven years old. She studied with and was inspired by incredible teachers including Lorelei Farlow, Richard F. (Dick) Dennis, and Jennifer Farquhar. She performed violin with the extraordinary Cathy Morris at the Indy Jazz Festival, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra all while pursuing an undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance.
Emily is an accomplished pianist and guitarist, seriously playing and performing since she was thirteen. She currently writes albums with her partner, Daniel Rivera, and experiments across the genres of rock, jazz, fusion, classical, and pop music.
Recently, Emily has music directed and conducted Disney’s: The Little Mermaid (CDAI), Beethoven: Live in Concert* (Fort Salem), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Columbia High School), Disney’s Tarzan (Schenectady Light Opera Company), It Shoulda Been You (Schenectady Light Opera Company), A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to The Forum (Schenectady Light Opera Company) and Merrily We Roll Along (Schenectady Light Opera Company), Bells Are Ringing (Not So Common Players) and Nice Work If You Can Get It (Not So Common Players).
Her consistently praised prowess as a theatrical performer has enabled her to succeed professionally onstage in both opera and musical theatre. Some of her operatic credits include, Le Nozze di Figaro, Falstaff, La Cenerentola, Rossini’s Nina, La Boheme, Die Fledermaus, Cendrillon, Little Women and Street Scene. Musical theatre credits include Once (Girl), 1776 (Abigail), Camelot (swing u/s Guinevere), My Fair Lady (Eliza), Jekyll & Hyde (Emma), Guys and Dolls (Sarah), Phantom (Christine), Hooray for Hollywood* (Ethel), Sweeney Todd (Johanna), Chess (Svetlana). T.V./Film: Paramount, HBO, Peacock, Amazon Prime, Searchlight, A Complete Unknown, Smile 2, And Just Like That…, Pretty Little Liars: Summer School, The Gilded Age, Pokerface, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. proud member SAG-AFTRA.
*denotes staged premiere