Lyric coloratura soprano Emma Petersen’s champions both the traditional and contemporary operatic and recital repertoire. Her recent roles include Violetta in La Traviata, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Contessa di Folleville in Il viaggio a Reims, Jean in Brigadoon, Yvettte in the Western Canadian premiere of Weinberg’s The Passenger, Orpheus in Orpheus in the Underworld, La Fée in Cendrillon, as well as understudying the roles of Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia and Olympia in Les Contes D’Hoffmann. She was the featured soloist in the finale episode of The Amazing Race Canada’s 2022 season, performing “Libiamo” from Verdi’s La Traviata. Emma has performed concert and recital works such as Strauss’ Brentano Lieder, Edvard Grieg’s Sechs Lieder, and Prevost’s Musiques Peintes, and has produced and performed in a winter recital entitled “Snowfall and Psalms” in Edmonton Alberta, and in Tucson Arizona. This spring, Emma is thrilled to be making her Pacific Northwest Opera debut as the Second Forest Sprite, and as Nannetta in Falstaff  in her Portland Opera debut. She trained in the University of Miami Frost School of music’s summer program in Salzburg, Austria, and in the Taos Opera Institute, and received her Bachelors of Music in Voice from the University of Arizona and her Master’s of Music from the University of British Columbia.