Wednesday 9 April 2014

Meet Emily Howard Cobley, Mezzo Soprano

Emily Cobley (nee Howard) has sung and recorded works by many composers; among them Steven Gerber, Kevin Malone, Michael Rose, Peter Susser and Alexandra Vrebalov. Most recently in 2012, she sang the American and British premieres of Kevin Malone’s A Clockwork Operetta with members of the Kronos Quartet (American premiere at the PEN American World Voices Festival) Of her PEN performance, Jane Ciabattari of NPR said (Emily) “blew the roof off” she was-appropriately-raucous, raspy and spell binding”. Other singing highlights include working as a Valkyrie at the Metropolitan Opera, her debut at Carnegie Hall in Mozart's Mass in C Minor, a performance of the Laudamus Te from the same work for Bill and Hillary Clinton and singing excerpts from for thousands as “The Queen of Opera” in the Extremely Hungary Festival's Opera Night in 2009 (as part of Target First Fridays at the Brooklyn Museum). Favourite roles performed include Azucena in Il Trovatore, Amneris in Aida and Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd.

No comments:

Post a Comment