Emily Hindrichs, Soprano

Emily Hindrichs is emerging as one of the important coloratura sopranos of our time. Upcoming, she makes her debut at the English National Opera in The Magic Flute as Queen of the Night, a role she will later reprise at the Seattle Opera, as well as returning to the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program as a guest artist to perform Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In concert, she will perform Strauss’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme with the Seattle Symphony, John Harbison’s Between Two Worlds at the New England Conservatory, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae as part of the Music of Remembrance series at Nordstrom Hall in Seattle.

In the fall 2008, she performed the Queen of the Night at the Syracuse Opera. The Post-Standard said, “coloratura soprano Hindrichs delivered her two arias with a secure command of the altissimo register, belting out her high F's with ease.” Recently in the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program, she performed the title role in Rita, Feu/Princesse/Rossignol in L’enfant et les Sortilèges, and Lauretta/Nella in Gianni Schicchi. Additionally, Ms. Hindrichs is a doctoral candidate at the New England Conservatory, where she performed Elle in La Voix Humaine, Therese in The Breasts of Tirésias and Amy in Little Women. Other recent engagements include the Flier in the Amelia workshop at Seattle Opera with composer Daron Hagen and director Stephen Wadsworth, Norina in Don Pasquale with Opera Providence, Gilda in Rigoletto with La Musica Lirica, and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites with Indiana University.

On the concert stage, Ms. Hindrichs has performed 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, and Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Cantata 140 at the Trinity Church in Boston.

Ms. Hindrichs won 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, and a M.A. in Musicology from the University of Exeter (U.K.).