Emily Rooke is a British soprano originally from Hereford and Worcester. She recently received a distinction in her Master of Performance degree at the Royal College of Music where she was an Ian Evans Lombe Scholar supported by the Pauline Hartley Award and studied under the tutelage of Dinah Harris and Bryan Evans MBE.  She was a British Youth Opera Serena Fenwick Young Artist 2020-2021. 

Recently, Emily has performed the role of Lucy (Cherry Town, Moscow) on the main stage at Wales Millennium Centre with Welsh National Youth Opera. She previously sang the role of Léonore (Campra’s Les Fêtes Vénitiennes) at the Liszt Academy, Budapest.

Royal College of Music opera scenes include Griselda (Alma Deutscher’s Cinderella), Damigella (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia), Miles (The Turn of the Screw) and Cobweb (A Midsummer Night’s Dream).

Emily enjoys performing a range of repertoire and has a particular affinity for early music and music written by female composers. As well as performing, Emily has worked in music outreach with Welsh National Opera as well as co-creating digital exhibitions and concert series.

Emily previously studied at the Conservatorio di Musica ‘Luigi Cherubini’ in Florence, Italy, the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève, Switzerland and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.