About

British soprano Emma Warner’s recent engagements include Zerlina in Don Giovanni at UNI.T, Berlin (2025), and the Female Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at the Max-Taut-Aula, Berlin (2024).

For the 2026–27 season, Emma is an Emerging Artist with the Brighton Early Music Festival, where she will perform solo roles in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Adrian Butterfield and the London Handel Players.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, Emma made her role debut as The Lawyer in the world premiere of William Gardner’s The Prisoner at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, later reprising the role at the Britten Theatre (2024). She subsequently created the role of The Philosopher in Gardner’s next opera, Eden 2.0, at the Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre, London (2026).

In concert, Emma has appeared in numerous Liederabende and premiered To Kiss Your Secrets, a song cycle by British composer Archie John, in the Joseph-Joachim-Konzertsaal at the Universität der Künste Berlin with pianist stefanpaul (2025).

Emma’s professional career began as a young singer at the Théâtre du Capitole, where she performed the role of Cis in the Royal Opera House’s touring production of Britten’s Albert Herring. She subsequently appeared as Flora in The Turn of the Screw at Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Opernhaus Zürich during the 2014–16 seasons.

Emma recently completed her Master’s degree at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where she studied with Caitlin Hulcup, Sebastian Störmer and Helen Collyer.

Beyond the classical stage, Emma collaborates with artists in the electronic music scene and appears on London-based producer and DJ felicita’s album Spalarkle (2023).