Soprano Emily Holter is noted for their radiant, velvety yet striking tone and moving, empathetic interpretations. In 2025, she covered two leading roles at Spotlight on Opera at Tulsa Opera, including Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana and the titular role of Tosca. Emily covered and was mentored by dramatic soprano Kara Shay Thomson in Tosca, where Emily also sang the voice of Tosca in the offstage cantata and performed significant portions of both operas in concert. Earlier in the same season, she made her role debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Music on Site. 

Recently, Ms. Holter was a Gate City Bank Young Artist at Fargo-Moorhead Opera, where she covered Liù in Turandot and performed Billie and Dater #47 in Speed Dating Tonight! by Michael Ching. They also performed in educational outreach tours throughout the Red River Valley of the North and for the Twin Cities Opera Guild in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, presenting excerpts of La bohème, Roméo et Juliette, and Turandot. That same season, she was a training artist at Jennifer Rowley's Aria Bootcamp and CoOPERAtive Program at Westminster.

Emily Holter completed their Master's of Music in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech University in 2021, where she performed Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte. Emily was the recipient of the Lubbock Chorale Scholarship and an opera Graduate Teaching Assistant at TTU. She won the Texas Tech Concerto Competition and performed with the Texas Tech University Symphony Orchestra, and was a finalist in the Texoma NATS competition. They also hold a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Minnesota Duluth, where she performed the role of Governess in The Turn of the Screw.

Since graduating, Emily has been forging a path for themself as both an opera singer and an assistant stage manager working at Maryland Lyric Opera, Kentucky Opera, Austin Opera, New Orleans Opera Association, San Diego Opera, and orchestra operations manager at the Spoleto Festival USA.