Emily Fons

This season mezzo-soprano Emily Fons appears as Irene in Haymarket’s production of Handel’s Tamerlano, in Music of the Baroque’s concert of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, as Dorabella in Detroit Opera’s production of Così fan tutte, and as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Madison Opera, and will return in the summer to Haymarket for both Mandane in Vinci’s Artaserse (which will also be recorded commercially) and Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina at the Ravinia Festival.

Last season Emily sang Nicklausse/The Muse in Les contes d’Hoffmann for her Palm Beach Opera debut and appeared in concert with the Madison Opera. Prior to that she returned to the Canadian Opera Company for her celebrated Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, to the New Orleans Opera for Hansel in Hänsel and Gretel, and to the San Diego Opera for the world premiere of Reveles’s Ghosts, and made her Cincinnati Opera debut as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia.

The previous season, Emily made her debut in the title role of Ariodante with the Göttingen Handel Festival in a concert marking the company’s centennial. She was also seen as Medoro in a virtual presentation of Handel’s Orlando with Haymarket Opera Company and sang her first Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice with Inland Northwest Opera. She returned to Japan for the role of Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus with the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy and to the Seattle Opera as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro before appearing as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Santa Fe Opera.

photo credit: Dario Acosta