“The young soprano Emily Blair, a first-year member of the Benenson Young Artist Program at Palm Beach Opera, substituted [...] as Rosalinde.
Her sweet, rich voice danced through the arias and ensemble numbers with her husband Eisenstein, swiftly traversing pathos, sarcasm, and irritation. And she gave a lively, personality-filled Czardas in the central party scene, singing with affecting nostalgia about her fake Hungarian homeland.
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Soprano Emily Blair has been praised for her “sweet, rich voice” (South Florida Classical Review) as Rosalinde in Palm Beach Opera’s Die Fledermaus, a role she reprised at Central City Opera. Her extensive repertoire includes Liù (Turandot), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), both Donna Elvira and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Contessa Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Annina (La traviata), Pat Nixon (Nixon In China), The Mother and Sandman (Hansel and Gretel), and both Mrs. Grose and Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw. In recent seasons, she was a Studio Artist at Sarasota Opera, an Apprentice Artist at Central City Opera, and as a member of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, where she made her professional film debut in Merola’s 2021 production, Back Home: Through the Stage Door. She was seen as Older Leah in the New York Premiere of Lori Laitman’s new opera Uncovered with City Lyric Opera.
Internationally, Ms. Blair has performed with Opera on the Avalon (Canada) and the Trentino Music Festival (Italy). She has been recognized in numerous competitions, including receiving an Encouragement award from the Laffont Competition New York District.
Ms. Blair is a graduate of Mannes School of Music | The New School for Music and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. When not on stage, she can be found cuddling with her cats, making pottery, or browsing bookshops to add to her "to be read" pile.