Soprano Emily Woodruff performs standard and contemporary vocal repertoire across the U.S. and abroad. 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.
Within the standard opera repertoire, Emily has appeared as Gilda (Rigoletto), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Giulietta and Antonia (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Michaela and Frasquita (Carmen), Mimì (La Bohemè), Marguerite (Faust), Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Violetta (La traviata), and Thais (title role), and she also sang the role of Rusalka in the Philadelphia premiere of Alexander Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka.
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 regularly performs opera, operetta, and musical theater in the greater Philadelphia area.
Within the standard opera repertoire, Emily has appeared as Gilda (Rigoletto), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Giulietta and Antonia (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Michaela and Frasquita (Carmen), Mimì (La Bohemè), Marguerite (Faust), Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Violetta (La traviata), and Thais (title role), and she also sang the role of Rusalka in the Philadelphia premiere of Alexander Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka.
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 regularly performs opera, operetta, and musical theater in the greater Philadelphia area.
