Emily Birsan will be performing as guest soprano for our “Strauss’s Four Last Songs” concert with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, November 21 at 3:00 PM.
Described as “luminous” (The Guardian) and “radiant” (London Telegraph), soprano Emily Birsan is known to Chicago audiences for her “mesmerizing” (Splash Magazine) performance as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Previous performances include leading roles at Lyric Opera, Welsh National Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, Boston Lyric Opera, Madison Opera and concert performances at Carnegie Hall, BBC Symphony, Ravinia Festival, Grant Park Symphony, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Philharmonic. With the Chandos Record Label, Birsan has recorded Elgar’s oratorio, The Saga of St. Olaf, with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis.
In the 2025/2026 season, she appears as Speranza Celeste in Stradella’s Ester with Haymarket Opera Company in Chicago, performs as soprano soloist in Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem with Apollo Chorus, Carmina Burana with New Philharmonic Orchestra, Poulenc’s Gloria with Lacrosse Symphony Orchestra, and premieres the new opera called Everlasting Faint with Madison Opera in the Spring.