Soprano Emily Woodruff performs standard and contemporary vocal repertoire across the U.S. and abroad. Last season Emily appeared with Center Stage opera as Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), and Giulietta and Antonia (Les contes d'Hoffmann), and also sang the role of Rusalka in the Philadelphia premiere of Alexander Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka with Russian Opera Workshop. Other opera credits include Mimì (La Bohemè), Marguerite (Faust), Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Violetta (La traviata), Thais (title role) and Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore).
On the concert stage, Emily has premiered contemporary vocal works in the Composers Now Festival and Composer’s Voice Concert Series (Manhattan), the Brooklyn College ElectroAcoustic Music Festival, the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival, and the NEXTET new music series at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She also premiered the role of Geraldine in Christabel, a chamber opera by Jennifer Bellor, and gave the New York premiere of California-based composer George N. Gianopoulos’ Op. 12 Three Songs for Soprano.
Emily holds both a B.A. in Music and an M.A. in Music Theory and History from the Pennsylvania State University’s Schreyer Honors College, as well as an M.A. in Musicology from the Eastman School of Music. She is a current student of tenor Gioacchino LiVigni.
On the concert stage, Emily has premiered contemporary vocal works in the Composers Now Festival and Composer’s Voice Concert Series (Manhattan), the Brooklyn College ElectroAcoustic Music Festival, the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival, and the NEXTET new music series at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She also premiered the role of Geraldine in Christabel, a chamber opera by Jennifer Bellor, and gave the New York premiere of California-based composer George N. Gianopoulos’ Op. 12 Three Songs for Soprano.
Emily holds both a B.A. in Music and an M.A. in Music Theory and History from the Pennsylvania State University’s Schreyer Honors College, as well as an M.A. in Musicology from the Eastman School of Music. She is a current student of tenor Gioacchino LiVigni.
