“Emily Blair, a first-year member of the company’s Benenson Young Artist Program, [...] is a fine Rosalinde, cleverly toying with – and getting the better of – her husband, Eisenstein. The ‘Csárdás’, sung as Rosalinde pretends to be a Hungarian countess, is a highlight;
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Tacea la notte placida- Il Trovatore
Pianist- Jonathan Gmeinder
Conductor- Jackson McKinnen
City Lyric Opera
“Soprano Emily Blair of suburban Chicago, who sang a lovely Arabella to D’Eramo’s Zdenka, also showed off a large, steely instrument with coloratura flourishes in the Czardas (“Klänge der Heimat”) from Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus. [...] Blair sang it with forcefulness and swagger [...].
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