Described as “a soprano with an outstanding range,” “a gifted [stage] performer,” (OperaWire), Emma Robertson is a soprano from Marietta, GA. She holds a masters degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and a bachelors degree in Music Performance from the University of Georgia.

Ms. Robertson made her Boston Lyric Opera debut in January 2025 in a concert version of Die Tote Stadt in collaboration with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She returned to the Cambridge Chamber Ensemble in July 2025 to sing the title role of Sally in Thomas Arne’s chamber opera, Thomas and Sally. She debuted with the company in 2024 as The Bride in Gian Carlo Menotti's Labyrinth. This performance was notable for the fact that it was the first live staging of the show in North America and is the only other publicly available recording of the full opera in existence.

Ms. Robertson placed in two concerto competitions in 2025 for her performance of Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. She was the second place winner of a concerto competition hosted by the Lowell Chamber Orchestra, and an encouragement award winner for competition supported by The Philharmonic Society of Arlington. 

In 2024, Emma won the opportunity to travel back to her home town of Marietta to perform with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra. As a the winner of the GSO Beethoven 9 competition, Ms. Robertson performed Beethoven’s 9th Symphony as the soprano soloist with the GSO and the GSO Chorus. 

In 2023, Emma was named the first place winner of the Wilkinson Young Singers Fund Scholarship, given to singers who “demonstrate strong musicianship, versatility of repertoire, a commitment to engage the community with their music, and the determination to make a career in music.”

While juggling school and part-time work, Ms. Robertson was enrolled in the Vinceró Online Vocal Academy. She had the privilege of studying three roles: Adina, Susanna, and Musetta, the latter for which she was offered partial scholarship. She has been working with such notable instructors as Abdiel Vàzquez, Stefano de Peppo, and Irina Meachem. She also took part in masterclasses and seminars with Angel Blue, Pretty Yende, Craig Rutenburg, Ana de Archuleta, and Gerardo Kleinburg. Emma made her Carnegie Hall Debut with the program in January 2023. In addition, she her Mexico and role debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with the program in November. 

In the summer of 2022, Ms. Robertson was offered the great opportunity to perform Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Upper Valley Baroque Ensemble in New Hampshire. She then made a quick 180 to perform the role of the Baker’s Wife from Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods with the North End Music and Performing Arts Center and the Boston Festival Orchestra.

In 2021, Ms. Robertson was a studio artist with Opera Maine, where she performed in the ensemble of L’Élisir d’amore and covered the role of Gianetta. 

In 2019, she won the Kay and Jimmy Garrison Student Grand Prize at the Orpheus Vocal Competition, which gave her necessary scholarship and funding to attend the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria later that summer. Over the course of six-weeks, Ms. Robertson studied with renowned soprano legend Evangelina Colón (it was also through this experience where she met her current voice teacher, Michael Meraw). A few months later, she was an Encouragement Award recipient at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in Atlanta, GA. Through this experience, she was invited to coach with Nate Raskin (Met opera coach) and was granted a semi-finalist spot in for the Lindemann Young Artist Development program.

Ms. Robertson graduated the University of Georgia in 2020 with a bachelors degree in Music Performance. There, she studied with mezzo-soprano Dr. Elizabeth Johnson-Knight, which was the beginnings of her private vocal instruction. Emma had the immense privilege of taking home the first place undergraduate student scholarship in the 2018 Atlanta Opera Guild Scholarship Competition. That same year, she made her way to the NATS National Competition, where she won second place. In 2017, in her first ever vocal competition, Ms. Robertson was one of ten vocalist recognized nationally to compete at the annual Glenn Miller Scholarship Competition in Clarinda, IA where she placed 3rd at just 18 years old. 

In 2018, she was cast as Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) with the Aquilon Music Festival and Young Artist Program in McMinnville, OR, ran by bass-baritone Anton Belov.