EmilySierra

Press

• BELLINI - Norma (Adalgisa)

  Opéra de Toulon

  Jun 2025

  • Emily Sierra's Adalgisa plays in a court won by breath and length, in a musical construction of honey and bruised sweetness. She absorbs and prolongs the feeling in a serene argument to implacable causality, an absolute counter-power to which she holds brilliantly throughout the entire performance.

    • Opera Online
    • 26 June 2025

  • In the role of Adalgisa, Cuban-American mezzo-soprano Emily Sierra offers her warm and very expressive voice, with powerful high notes and resonant low notes. Her vocal mastery even allows her to sing lying on her back and on her side while she is seduced by Pollione. Her performance, very invested and dramatic, clearly expresses her turmoil at the idea of ​​betraying her vows of chastity. In her duet with Norma , the two singers establish a sincere complicity, both vocally and on stage.

    • Olyrix
    • 29 June 2025

  • [Salome Jicia (Norma)] delivers a very high-flying performance: the drawn-out notes, and even more so the finesse of the attacks, are admirable. Her Adalgisa (a very moving Emily Sierra) evolves on the same peaks. The two women's long duets are suspended moments where, in the light of their alliance against the male invader, the two singers seem to entrust their respective art to each other.

    • ResMusica
    • 29 June 2025

  • Adalgisa, Emily Sierra , is no less expressive or painful. The young virgin that Norma protects has the grace, the candor, and, above all, the substance of the role. The voice is ample, seductive, the high notes as delicious as the low notes of the trio that closes the I, never chesty, the legato superb, the breath long, and we find ourselves regretting that the work reserves neither aria, nor cavatina, nor romanza for her. Her opening story, Sgombra è la sacra selva , followed by the arioso Deh proteggini o Dio , impose the character, embodied with precision. If the first duet with Norma, ideally balanced, goes beyond pure vocal virtuosity for intense expression, the second is of exceptional beauty and captivates us with its masterful progression ( Si, fino all'ore estreme in particular).

    • Forum Opera
    • 30 June 2025

• MOZART - Idomeneo (Idamante)

  Theater an der Wien

  Oct 2024

  • The Chicago-born Cuban-American mezzo-soprano Emily Sierra, who is driven to despair by her father Idomeneo's rejection and is in danger of breaking down, was a hit in the trouser role of Idamante.

    • Der Opernfreund
    • 15 October 2024

• MOZART - Idomeneo (Idamante)

  Bayerische Staatsoper

  Sep 2023

  • Impetuously passionate and radiantly warm: Emily Sierra and Emily Pogorelc form a dream couple in Mozart’s “Idomeneo” at the National Theater.

    • Suddeutsche Zeitung
    • 28 September 2023

  • It is the two roles of mezzo-soprano Emily Sierra as Idamante and American soprano Emily Pogorelc as Ilia that catch the attention of regulars on the Munich stage… Mezzo-soprano Emily Sierra sings her first major role as a member of the Munich troupe, after training at the Opera Studio. A role supported by good technique, a seductive timbre and a nuanced lyricism in the expression of emotional variations.

    • Paper blog
    • 29 September 2023

• HAYDN - L'infedeltà delusa (Nanni)

  Bayerische Staatsope

  Apr 2022

  • Finally, mezzo Emily Sierra is Nanni, a difficult role in the context of the production where she has a lot to invent in this new transvestite character. Not that modifications of this type were rare in the 18th century, but she also had to create a new character. As always with American singers, the technique and control are impeccable, and for Emily Sierra, we hear a marked lyricism, a rare quality of timbre, a suave voice that will also have to be followed with attention in other roles

    • Wandersite
    • 08 April 2022

• HANDEL - Parnasso in festa (Cloride)

  Wigmore Hall

  Mar 2020

  • For alto Emily Sierra (as Clori) I noted during her aria (‘Tra sentier di amane selve’) that she was highly competent and sang beautifully

    • Seen and Heard
    • 13 March 2020

  • Emily Sierra’s one aria as Clori, extolling the hunt, was nimble and eloquent...

    • Classical Source
    • 10 March 2020