About Emily

Performing leading roles across a diverse repertoire, American soprano, Emily Newton, has established a reputation as an artist deeply committed to musical and dramatic expression. The Süddeutsche Zeitung enthused, “She sings and plays with a truth that is absolutely fascinating, and you can feel this in every nuance of Newton's performance. Her Marschallin is a woman of today, and she imbues her with lyricism and drama, and a seemingly effortlessly produced vocal elegance.” 

A member of the ensemble at Staatstheater Nürnberg since 2018/19, she has sung several leading roles, including the Marschallin, Leonora (Il Trovatore), Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes), Elsa, Madama Butterfly, Èlisabeth (Don Carlo), Ursula (Mathis der Maler), Mimì, Alice Ford (Falstaff), Contessa, Donna Elvira, Rosalinde, and Anna Nicole. She created the role of Joan Clarke in the World Premiere of Anno Schreier’s new opera, Turing, in 2022.  In the 2024/25 season she will appear in roles such as Lady Macbeth and Senta in Nürnberg and Elisabetta (Don Carlo) in Koblenz, among others. In addition to her operatic performances, she will give art song concerts in North Carolina, New Jersey, Augsburg, and Nürnberg. 

Other complete roles have included Desdemona, Arabella, Tatiana, Leonore (Fidelio), Lady Macbeth, Nedda, Fiordiligi, Anna Bolena, Donna Anna, Hanna Glawari, Micäela, and Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia). She has also sung at theaters such as the Wiener Staatsoper, Lisbon’s Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Oper Frankfurt, Mannheim National Theater, Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, Theater Aachen, Theater Koblenz, Theater Hagen, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Saratoga, Opera New Jersey, Opera in the Heights, Idaho Opera, and Amarillo Opera, as well as working as a cover at The Metropolitan Opera, Bayreuth Festival, and Oper Zürich.

On the concert stage, she joined the Dortmunder Philharmoniker for Mahler’s 8th Symphony, which was recorded live and released on the Dreyer Gaido label. Ms. Newton has performed the soprano solos in Vier letzte Lieder, Knoxville:  Summer of 1915, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Debussy’s La Damoiselle Èlue, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Missa Solemnis, and 9th Symphony, Brahm’s Requiem, Elijah, The Creation, Mahler’s Zweite Symphonie and Schubert’s Mirjam’s Siegesgesang.

Pursuing her interest in helping the next generations of singers achieve their own performance goals, Ms. Newton teaches voice at the University of Augsburg and maintains a small studio of private voice students. She has given workshops for the Opernstudio at Staatstheater Nürnberg and has also given presentations and master classes to students at Boston University, Depaul University, University of Miami, Ithaca College, Rice University, SUNY Fredonia, Mary Hardin Baylor University, Brazosport College, Austin College and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

Ms. Newton is from Lake Jackson, TX. She received her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of North Texas and continued her studies at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she completed a Master of Music as an A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute Fellow. She recently completed her Master of Arts in Voice Pedagogy at the Voice Study Centre and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.