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Bring your guests and join us for our first Club Lunch in 2026, filled with good food and good conversation with guest speaker Emily Edmonds.
Speaker bio
Australian mezzo-soprano Emily Edmonds is recognised internationally for her interpretations of both traditional and contemporary work.
2025-26 season highlights include the title role in Cendrillon (Opera Australia), Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera Australia), Varvara in Kat’a Kabanova (Victorian Opera), and Rosina in The Barber of Seville (Opera Australia). Recent season highlights include Varvara in Kat’a Kabanova (Royal Opera House),
Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro (State Opera South Australia) and L’enfant in L'enfant et les sortilèges (London Philharmonic Orchestra; Komische Oper Berlin).
Emily garnered widespread critical acclaim for her American and British premiere performances of Venables’ Denis & Katya (Opera Philadelphia; Music Theatre Wales). She made her début as Dorabella in Così fan tutte for Classical Opera Company, London and sang Mlle. Dangeville in Adriana Lecouvreur (Verbier Festival).
In her native Australia, engagements have included Semira in Hasse’s Artaserse and Asteria in Vivaldi's Bajazet (Pinchgut Opera), Saariaho’s Quatre Instants, Britten/ Styles' Awakening Shadow/Canticles, and Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill (Sydney Chamber Opera). She has also performed Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Emily enjoyed a two-year tenure as a Young Artist with the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artist Programme. In the 2016-2017 Royal Opera House season, she sang Agathe/Dargelos in Philip Glass' Les Enfants Terribles, Madrigal Singer in Manon Lescaut, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Tebaldo in Don Carlo. In 2015-2016, she sang Aglaea/Atropos/Bacchus in Orpheus (ROH at Shakespeare’s Globe), Kätchen in Werther, Suor Cercatrice in Suor Angelica and the world premiere of Philip Venables’
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