Emma Wheeler

Emma Wheeler is a first year post graduate mezzo soprano studying with Susan Roper at the Royal Northern College of Music where she graduated in 2017 with a First Class Bachelor of Music degree. Her recent roles include third lady cover Die Zauberflöte (Longborough Opera Festival), Marcellina cover Le Nozze di Figaro (LOF), Emma Citizens of Nowehere (Tête-à-tête), Louise La Vie Parisienne, Joe Street Scene (RNCM), Assunta The Saint of Bleecker Street (RNCM opera scene), Iolanthe, Third Lady Die Zauberflöte (Bedfordshire Youth Opera). Her chorus experience includes LOF’s Die Zauberflöte and Le Nozze di Figaro, RNCM’s Cosi Fan Tutti, Street Scene, The Merry Widow and L’elisir D’amore and the Opera Studio Melbourne’s Eugene Onegin, The Juniper Tree and Orpheus and the Underworld. Last year Emma performed Sea Pictures Elgar and she looks forward to performing Messiah Handel and Elijah Mendelssohn this autumn. Emma, as part of the RNCM Chamber Choir, has sang alongside The King Singers, members of the Sixteen and under the baton of Penderecki at the UK premiere of Seven Gates of Jerusalem. She has also performed many times with Manchester University’s elite chamber choir Ad Solem. Emma gratefully acknowledges the support of The Oglesby Charitable Trust.