Emily Hindrichs

Emily Hindrichs, a native of New Orleans, USA, studied at the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Exeter and the New England Conservatory. She then became a member of the Young Artist Program at Seattle Opera. She has won numerous competitions, including the Sullivan Foundation Award and the Washington International Competition, and she also won the Les Azuriales Opera Competition in France. As a member of the ensemble at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, the soprano performed the Queen of the Night in ‘The Magic Flute’, Oscar in ‘Un ballo in maschera’, Le Feu in ‘L'enfant et les sortilèges’ and the title role in Stravinsky's ‘Le Rossignol’, among other roles. Debuts as Micaëla in Carmen, Anne Trulove in The Rake's Progress and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail took her to the Opéra Théâtre de Saint-Étienne and the Connecticut Early Music Festival, and she also made guest appearances in Ravel's ‘L'enfant et les sortilèges’ at the Komische Oper Berlin, the Aalto-Musiktheater Essen and numerous other theatres in 2017, in addition to being in demand as the Queen of the Night. In autumn 2019, she enjoyed particular success at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar as Elsa in Paul Dessau's ‘Lancelot’. In the 2015.16 season, she moved from the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe to the ensemble of the Cologne Opera, where she has appeared to date in roles including Teresa (»Benvenuto Cellini«), Musetta (»La Bohème«), Adela (in the world premiere of Liza Lim's »Tree of Codes«), 1st Flowermaiden (»Parsifal«), Nannetta (»Falstaff«), in several roles in the German premiere of Johannes Maria Staud's ‘Die Antilope’, as Susanna (‘Le nozze di Figaro’), Elisetta in Cimarosa's ‘Il matrimonio segreto’, Wanda in Offenbach's ‘La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein’, First Elf in ‘Rusalka’, Rose Maurrant in Kurt Weill's ‘Street Scene’ and the Queen of the Night in ‘Die Zauberflöte’. A particular highlight of her time at the Cologne Opera was her interpretation of Marie in Bernd Alois Zimmermann's ‘Die Soldaten’ in 2018.

This was followed in 2021 and 2022 by role debuts as Marguerite in ‘Faust’ at the Cologne Opera and the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen and as Clémence in Kaija Saariajo's ‘L'amour de loin’ at the Cologne Opera, a role debut as Olympia in Barrie Kosky's ‘Les Contes d'Hoffmann’ at the Komische Oper Berlin and the world premiere of Liza Lim's ‘Annunciation Triptych’ with the WDR Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Cristian Măcelaru. The 2022.23 season brought role debuts as the Infanta in Zemlinsky's ‘The Dwarf’, Anna in Katie Mitchell's ‘Miranda’ and as May in the world premiere of Arnaud Petit's ‘La bête dans la jungle’. In summer 2023, she was involved in the world premiere production of George Benjamin's ‘Picture a day like this’ at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Lover/Composer. 2023.24 brought a return to Marie in ‘Die Soldaten’ in a new touring production by director Calixto Bieito at the Kölner Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Philharmonie de Paris, the world premiere of Frank Pesci's ‘The Strangers’ as well as a role debut as Elettra in ‘Idomeneo’ and again Marguerite in ‘Faust’. She also made her house debut at the Semperoper Dresden in 2024 as Teresa in Berlioz' “Benvenuto Cellini”. In the current season, Emily Hindrichs sings the Fifth Maid in ‘Elektra’, Donna Anna in ‘Don Giovanni’, Musetta in ‘La Bohème’ and a protagonist in Philippe Manoury's world premiere ‘The Last Days of Mankind’.