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Emily Rooke

Primary Skill:

Soprano

Nationality:

British

Country:

United Kingdom

Languages (fluent):

English

Opera

Chorus
Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
Opera Holland Park
2024
Damigella
L'incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi)
RCM Opera Scenes
2023
Griselda
Cinderella (Alma Deutscher)
RCM Opera Scenes
2023
Lucy
Cherry Town, Moscow (Shostakovich)
Welsh National Opera Young Company
2022
Lucia
The Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
RCM Opera Scenes
2022
Miles
The Turn of the Screw (Britten)
RCM Opera Scenes
2022
Betly
Betly (Donizetti)
British Youth Opera, National Opera Studio
2021
Le Papillon, Chorus
L'enfant et les Sortilèges (Ravel)
VOPERA
2020
Léonore
Les Fêtes Vénitiennes (Campra)
HEM Genève - Solti Hall, Budapest
2019
Chorus
Carmen (Bizet)
Concerto Classico Opera Company, Florence
2019
Chorus
La Traviata (Verdi)
Concerto Classico Opera Company, Florence
2019
Anima
Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo (Cavalieri)
Conservatorio Cherubini, Museo Galileo, Florence
2019
Susanna
Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Conservatorio di Musica ‘Luigi Cherubini’
2019
Chorus
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
2018
Poppea
L'incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi)
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
2018
Fiordiligi
Così fan Tutte (Mozart)
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
2018
Zerlina
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Hereford Shire Hall
2017
Papagena
Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
Hereford Shire Hall
2017
Sophie
Werther (Massenet)
Hereford Cathedral
2017
Roy
Dirty Beasts (Brian Irvine)
Welsh Millennium Centre/RWCMD
2016
Gretel​
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
RWCMD Outreach Project
2015

Chorus

Oratorio/Concerts

Soloist
Requiem (Fauré)
Bromyard Choral Society
2021
Soloist
Requiem (Mozart)
Worcester Symphony Orchestra
2019
Angel
Elijah (Mendelssohn)
Church of St. Edward and St. Teilo, Cardiff
2017
1st Soprano Soloist
Gloria (Vivaldi)
Lucton School
2012
Soloist
Messiah (Handel)
Bransford Chapel
2011

Choral

Soloist
Wonders of the Celtic Deep (Paul Mealor)
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
2021
Soloist
Seven Angels (Sir James MacMillan)
BBC NCW, Hoddinott Hall, Welsh Millenium Centre
2018
Soloist
Rejoice in the Lamb (Benjamin Britten)
Academia Musica Choir, Truro Tour
2013

Covered Covered & Performed Scenes Premiere of New Work Concert COVID-cancelled

C from Poulenc's 'Deux Poèmes de Louise Aragon'

Fêtes Galantes from Poulenc's 'Deux Poèmes de Louise Aragon'

Serena Fenwick Young Artist Programme
British Youth Opera
2020–2021
Summer Festival
British Youth Opera
2020
Italian Opera (European Opera Academy)
Conservatorio di Musica ‘Luigi Cherubini’, Firenze
2019
French Repertoire (European Opera Academy)
Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève
2018–2019
BMus (Hons)
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
2014–2018

Emily Rooke is a British soprano originally from Hereford and Worcester. She recently received a distinction in her Master of Performance degree at the Royal College of Music where she was an Ian Evans Lombe Scholar supported by the Pauline Hartley Award and studied under the tutelage of Dinah Harris and Bryan Evans MBE. She was a British Youth Opera Serena Fenwick Young Artist 2020-2021. Recently Emily has performed the role of Lucy (Cherry Town, Moscow) on the main stage at Wales Millennium Centre with Welsh National Youth Opera. She previously sang the role of Léonore (Campra’s Les Fêtes Vénitiennes) at the Liszt Academy, Budapest.

Royal College of Music opera scenes include Griselda (Alma Deutscher’s Cinderella), Damigella (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia), Miles (The Turn of the Screw) and Cobweb (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Other scenes include Anima (Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo) at the Museo Galileo, Florence and the titular role of Donizetti’s Betly with British Youth Opera.

Previously a scholar with the BBC National Chorus of Wales, Emily regularly performed at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms and Wales Millennium Centre. She was a step-out soloist for Sir James MacMillan’s Seven Angels broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 and TV series Wonders of the Celtic Deep.

Solo concert performances include Oster-Oratorium (Bach) at RCM, Requiem (Mozart) and Magnificat (Pergolesi) with Worcestershire Symphony Orchestra, as well as Gloria (Vivaldi), Messiah (Handel) and an Angel in Elijah (Mendelssohn).
Emily regularly performs in RCM museum concerts as well as lute song concerts, most recently at St. John’s, Smith Square for their Crypt Classics series.

Theatrically, Emily performed A Minor Excursion (J. A. Bates) at the Three Choirs Festival and has performed alongside artists from Central School of Ballet, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Royal College of Art for an interdisciplinary performance of Wonder, curated by Diana Krasovska.

Emily was one of the first Vocal Animateur Interns appointed with Welsh National Opera from 2019-2020, where she trained to perform and lead workshops in a variety of settings including: mainstream and SEND schools; community chorus; and hospitals. She has also worked with ABC of Opera to create Makaton signing videos and recordings for their digital teacher’s pack and has previously curated concerts for the National Museum of Wales and BBC Earth Hour. Emily recently curated a digital exhibition on Dame Ethel Smyth’s life and legacy in conjunction with the Royal College of Music.

Emily previously studied at the Conservatorio di Musica ‘Luigi Cherubini’ in Florence, Italy, the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève, Switzerland and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She has participated in masterclasses with Sir Mark Elder, Dame Ann Murray, Matteo Dalle Fratte, Marie-Ange Todorovitch and Alison Wells.

Opera Chorus work includes Respighi’s La Bella Dormente nel Bosco and Ravel’s L’enfant et les Sortilèges (Royal College of Music International Opera School), La Traviata and Carmen (Concerto Classico Opera Company) in Florence, and The Magic Flute (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama).

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