"Emily Hindrichs's Queen of the Night blazed her way like a comet through the role's high tessitura, putting all those tricky triplets in the second part of "Der Hölle Rache" perfectly in place." - OPERA NEWS

Emily Hindrichs is emerging as one of the most important coloratura sopranos of our time. Her chilling interpretation of the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte has taken her to debuts with the English National Opera and Oper Frankfurt, Seattle Opera, New Orleans Opera, as well as with the Lyric Opera of Chicago where she covered 10 performances earlier this year. Additional debuts this past season have included the role of Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress with Opéra Théâtre de St. Étienne in France and Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Connecticut Early Music Festival.

She reprises her signature role of the Queen this season with the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Nashville Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, and Opera Omaha, as well as makes her debut at Oper Köln as Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore, and her role debut as Micaëla in Carmen with the Long Bay Symphony.

An active concert and recital artist, this season includes a Britten Weekend recital with Aldeburgh Music, soprano soloist in Elijah with the Long Bay Symphony, and a guest artist appearance with the Mars Hill New Music Festival. Recent concert appearances have included Bach’s B Minor Mass with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, as well as a tour performing Bach’s B Minor Mass with L’Ensemble Médical at the St. Markus Church in Munich, St. Paul’s Cathedral in Boston, Carnegie Hall, and in Washington DC to benefit Doctors Without Borders and Partners in Health.

In addition, Strauss’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme with the Seattle Symphony, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with Musica Sacra in Boston, Schoenberg’s Herzgewächse with Emmanuel Music in Boston, Mrs. Nordstrom in A Little Night Music at Tanglewood with the Boston Pops, the premiere of John Harbison’s Milosz Songs with the New England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble, Mozart arias with the Seattle Philharmonic, Handel’s Jephtha and Bach’s Johannespassion at the International Bachakademie in Stuttgart, Knoxville: Summer of 1915 at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre, Britten’s Les Illuminations at the Europäisches Musikfest in Stuttgart, Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Cantata 140 at the Trinity Church in Boston, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae as part of the Music of Remembrance series at Nordstrom Hall in Seattle.

While a member of the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program, she performed Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the title role in Rita, Feu/Princesse/Rossignol in L’enfant et les Sortilèges and Lauretta/Nella in Gianni Schicchi. At the New England Conservatory, she performed Elle in La Voix Humaine, Therese in The Breasts of Tirésias and Amy in Little Women. She has also performed Norina in Don Pasquale with Opera Providence, Gilda in Rigoletto with La Musica Lirica, and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites at Indiana University.

Ms. Hindrichs was the recipient of a 2009 Sullivan Foundation Award, won first place in the Les Azuriales Opera Competition in France, and was awarded 2nd place in the Washington International Competition. Of her performance, the Washington Post said, “Emily Hindrichs…offered works by Ravel, Richard Strauss, Handel and Verdi. To this taste, she had the finest voice of the contestants – firm, full, lustrous, agile and distinctive…her personal charm, her sure sense of pitch, and her refusal to indulge in the inane birdy mimesis that so often passes for coloratura singing were strong attributes.” Ms. Hindrichs has a Bachelor of Music and Masters in Music from the University of Southern Mississippi, a M.A. in Musicology from the University of Exeter (U.K.), and a D.M.A. in vocal performance from New England Conservatory.