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Ms. McNairy was accepted as a 2013 Vocal Fellow at Marilyn Horne’s prestigious summer program in Santa Barbara, Music Academy of the West, where she will cover the role of Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and sing Norina in scenes from Don Pasquale.

In the Fall of 2013, Ms. McNairy will reprise the title role from Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea with the Dutch company, VocaalLAB, in their touring production, MonteverdISH.

Ms. McNairy recently returned

from the Junges Stuttgarter

Bach Ensemble of the

Internationale Bachakademie

Stuttgart singing Bach’s

St. Matthew Passion, singing the

role of Uxor Pilati on tour in

St. Georg’s in Bensheim, Germany

and in Chile in Frutillar’s Teatro del Lago under the baton of Helmuth Rilling.

Ms. McNairy sang Lucy and Laetitia in The Telephone and The Old Maid and the Thief in March, 2013 with Brava! Opera Theater in Southern Oregon under the direction of Willene Gunn.

Ms. McNairy sang Poppea across from Christine Brandes as Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea to great acclaim in February, 2013 with West Edge Opera in El Cerrito, California.

In 2012, Ms. McNairy won 1st place in Berkeley Piano Club’s Dorothy Van Waynen Voice Competition, 2nd place in the East Bay Opera League Scholarship Competition, the Ben DeBolt Memorial Award at West Bay Opera’s Henry & Maria Holt Memorial Scholarship Competition, and 3rd prize out of 10 national finalists invited to compete in the Franco-American Vocal Academy’s Grand Concours de Chant in Austin, TX!

Emma McNairy was accepted to Opera New Jersey’s

Victoria J. Mastrobuono Emerging Artist Program

for the Summer of 2012!

Ms. McNairy sang her first

Zerbinetta in

Ariadne auf Naxos with

West Edge Opera

alongside famed soprano,

Marie Plette as Ariadne

in Oct.-Nov., 2011.

In 2011 Ms. McNairy completed the inaugural month-long professional training program, I SING BEIJING, founded by Metropolitan bass, Hao Jiang Tian, where she was among the first ever Western singers to learn and perform Mandarin as a lyric language while in China. She performed the role of Moon in a scene from Guo Wenjing’s Poet Li Bai at Beijing’s National Center for Performing Arts.

She returned to Beijing’s National Center for Performing Arts on December 12th, 2011 for an I SING BEIJING reunion concert for the 6th annual Confucius Institute Conference Opening Ceremony.

A 50-minute documentary by Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Allan Miller, will be aired on PBS, featuring Ms. McNairy.

Beijing’s National Center for Performing Arts