Musicians

Emily Golden, mezzo-soprano

The New York Times has described Emily Golden’s voice as “lustrously dark” and her performances as “positively virtuosic.” She has built her reputation as a consummate singing actress both in the United States and abroad in repertoire encompassing the Baroque to the Contemporary.

Miss golden has sung with every leading opera company in the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Seattle Opera, the Washington Opera, the Atlanta Opera, the Cleveland Opera and the Santa Fe Opera, as well as with the Opera National de Paris, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Frankfurt Opera, the Netherlands Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Rome Opera, Teatro Regio di Torino, L'Opera du Rhin, Canadian Opera Company, Scottish Opera and the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan. Her many acclaimed interpretations include the title role in “Carmen,” which she has sung more than 300 times worldwide, the title role of “Der Rosenkavalier,” the Composer in “Ariadne Auf Naxos,” Clairon in “Capriccio,” Klytemnestra in “Elektra,” Amneris in “Aida,” Azucena in “Il Trovatore,” Geschwitz in “Lulu,” Isolier in “le Comte Ory” and Jocasta in “Oedipus Rex.” Miss Golden has created major roles in several world premiere operas, three of which were featured in international television broadcasts: “McTeague” by William Bolcom, “Oedipus” by Wolfgang Rihm and “Salammbo” by Philippe Fenelon.

Concert appearances have also figured prominently in Miss Golden’s career. She has been a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago, Seattle, St. Louis, Colorado, Baltimore, New Jersey and American symphonies, the Minnesota Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic in repertoire such as the symphonies and song cycles of Mahler, the Verdi and Mozart Requiems, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony” and “Missa Solemnis,” “Alexander Nevsky” of Prokoviev and Falla’s “El Amor Brujo.” Recitals have included an all-Dvorak program under the auspices of the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music Series. Miss Golden has recorded for Albany Records, Newport Classics and the Musical Heritage Society.

A native New Yorker, Emily Golden received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, following earlier training in piano, horn and voice at the Juilliard School. She has won several prestigious vocal competitions, among them the G.B. Dealey Award. She made her professional debut at the age of twenty-one at the Metropolitan Opera.

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