Emily Richter

The second-year Ryan Opera Center soprano from Arlington, Virginia, was a national winner of the 2024 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and made her Lyric debut in the 2024/25 Season as First Peasant Girl in The Marriage of Figaro. In the summer of 2025, she was in residence at the Aix-en-Provence Festival Académie, and this season at Lyric she will appear in Medea. She recently completed two years as a Resident Artist with Pittsburgh Opera. Role highlights during her tenure include the title role/Iphigénie en Tauride, Countess/Le nozze di Figaro, Ma/Proving Up, and Ginevra/Ariodante. In the 2023/24 Season, she made her Messiah debut with the Seattle Symphony and her Verdi Requiem debut with the Westmoreland Symphony. Richter has spent her summers as an apprentice artist at Santa Fe Opera, Central City Opera, and the Seagle Festival. She holds a Master’s Degree from McGill’s Schulich School of Music and a Bachelor’s of Music in Vocal Performance from Lawrence University. Future engagements include her debut with Opéra National de Paris.

Emily Richter is sponsored by Lead Sponsor The C.G. Pinnell Family and cosponsors Amy & Paul Carbone and Susan M. Miller.

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