Soprano Emma Bell has in recent seasons moved on from the Mozart heroines with whom she established her career to the key jugendlich-dramatisch roles, recently making house debuts at Bayerische Staatsoper as Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) under Kirill Petrenko, at Deutsche Oper Berlin as both Elisabeth and Venus (Tannhäuser) under Sebastian Weigle, at Opernhaus Zürich as Leonore (Fidelio) under Markus Poschner and at Staatsoper Hamburg as Elsa (Lohengrin) under Simone Young.
A wide and varied early career has taken Bell to Teatro alla Scala as Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress), Elettra (Idomeneo) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), to the Metropolitan Opera as Contessa Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) and Donna Elvira, and to the Teatro Real Madrid, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, The Dallas Opera and Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. In more recent seasons Bell has appeared as Elisabeth at Bayerische Staatsoper under Simone Young, Madame Lidoine (Les dialogues des Carmélites) at Staatsoper Hamburg under Kent Nagano, as Strauss’ Arabella at Oper Köln and as both Eva and Leonore for Opernhaus Zürich. On the stage of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, she has received praise as Eva, Madame Lidoine and Elisabeth and her return to Glyndebourne Festival in 2018 as the title role in Keith Warner’s celebrated production of Vanessa was met with critical acclaim, the Guardian writing “Bell gives one of her finest performances to date, beautifully acted, her voice soaring with elation and anguish”.
Soprano Emma Bell has in recent seasons moved on from the Mozart heroines with whom she established her career to the key jugendlich-dramatisch roles, recently making house debuts at Bayerische Staatsoper as Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) under Kirill Petrenko, at Deutsche Oper Berlin as both Elisabeth and Venus (Tannhäuser) under Sebastian Weigle, at Opernhaus […]
