Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Emily Pulley’s radiant voice and electrifying acting have won her both national and international acclaim on the operatic stage. At home in both traditional and contemporary repertoire, last season Ms. Pulley joined The Metropolitan Opera for a workshop of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and she sang Kate Heller in the world premiere of Carla Lucero and Marianna Mott Newirth’s Touch, about the life of Helen Keller, with Opera Birmingham. She sang Ježibaba in Rusalka with Opera Orlando, returned to Eugene Opera to sing the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, and she also joined Wichita Grand Opera to co-direct and sing the Old Lady in Candide. This season she takes her hilarious, self-directed Julia Child in Lee Hoiby’s one-woman Bon Appétit to Fort Worth Opera, followed by Nashville Opera, where it will appear on a double bill with the world premiere of Shawn E. Okpebholo and Mark Campbell’s The Cook-Off, in which she will sing the role of Beryl Bennett. She will then return to Nashville Opera to direct H.M.S. Pinafore and portray the role of Little Buttercup, and she will join Vashon Opera later in the season to sing Quickly in Falstaff.
