Emma Bell

Winner of the 1998 Kathleen Ferrier Award, Emma Bell trained at the Royal Academy of Music. In recent seasons she has established the key jugendlich-dramatisch roles in her repertoire, making house debuts at Bayerische Staatsoper as Eva Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, at Deutsche Oper Berlin as both Elisabeth and Venus in Tannhäuser and at Staatsoper Hamburg as Elsa Lohengrin. Performances in the 2022/2023 season include Aunt Lydia The Handmaid’s Tale (English National Opera); Madame Lidoine Dialogues des Carmélites (Staatsoper Hamburg) and Ellen Orford Peter Grimes (Teatro La Fenice).

Recent engagements: Sieglinde The Valkyrie (English National Opera); Leonore Fidelio (Prague State Opera, Operhaus Zürich)