Emily Beech is an Irish-British soprano and opera maker. She is a current Serena Fenwick Artist for British Youth Opera, having graduated last year with Distinction from postgraduate studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she was generously supported by a Kathleen Roberts scholarship and the John Clemence Charitable Trust. She previously read Music at the University of Birmingham, graduating with first-class honours in 2019. Emily’s recent work includes performing the role of Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera) for Opera on Location, in a new English translation of Verdi’s score by Ashley Pearson. For Trinity Laban she performed the roles of Queen Mary (Mary Queen of Scots), Sandrina (La Finta Giardiniera), Rosaura (Le Donne Curiose) and Mimi (La Boheme). Emily is a SongEasel Young Artist and has enjoyed recent competition success as a prize-winner in the AESS National English Song Competition 2023 and the Peter Hearn Foundation Competition 2023. Alongside her work as a performer Emily is a fledgling opera director; she was a Waterperry Opera Festival Young Artist in 2023, for whom she directed Samuel Barber’s A Hand of Bridge and was assistant director on their double bill of Acis and Galatea and Dido and Aeneas. Emily has developed work for the Tete-a-Tete Opera Festival, Opera Prelude, Pimlico Music Foundation and Streetwise Opera. She is delighted to be starting work as Junior Fellow (opera directing) at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama this academic year.

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