biography

Praised for her “ample, gleaming soprano,” Emily Baker is an operatic soprano and passionate music educator in Massachusetts. She made her international debut in 2024 as a vocal fellow at Opernfest Prague, performing at Obecní Dům in Prague, Czechia. She returned this past summer as a third-year vocal fellow, performing arias from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and Verdi’s La Forza Del Destino.

This past year, Emily performed the title role in Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon with PanOpera. Emily also performs frequently with orchestras and opera companies across New England, including Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Keene Chorale and NERO, three seasons as a featured soloist with the Torrington Symphony Orchestra, and multiple concerts with BARN Opera/Opera Vermont. Most recently, she was named a semi-finalist in the Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition.

Equally experienced in the Italian and German operatic repertoire, Emily has performed and covered multiple Wagner roles, including Freia in Das Rheingold, Helmvige in Die Walküre, and Waldvogel in Siegfried. She has also performed multiple Puccini roles, such as the title role in Suor Angelica, Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, and Nella in Gianni Schicchi. She has performed scenes and larger selections as Mimi in La Bohème and Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly.

In 2020, Emily was set to make her debut as Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte with Windham Orchestra and perform the soprano solo in the Mozart Requiem with the Keene Chorale (VT), both engagements were postponed due to COVID-19.  In the summer of 2021, Ms. Baker participated in the Russian Opera Workshop, where she virtually studied the role of Tatyana in Eugene Onegin.  At Opera Neo, Emily brought “welcome focus” to her performance as Linfea in La Calisto and “set off fireworks” in her concert performances in scenes as Aïda and Rosalinde. Emily performed as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with the North End Performing Arts Center in Boston and as Micaëla in Carmen with PanOpera in western Massachusetts. While completing her master’s degree and performance diploma at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Emily performed as Giorgetta in Puccini's Il tabarro, Berta in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Zweite Dame in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. She was the 2014 Indiana District Encouragement Award winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a Rochester International Vocal Competition finalist.