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Soprano Emily Rocha is a Second Prize winner of the Canadian Opera Company Centre Stage Competition and a current member of the COC Ensemble Studio. In spring 2027, she performs Adina (L’elisir d’amore) at the COC. Her 2025/26 season also includes appearances as Countess Ceprano (Rigoletto) and covering Gilda, Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) and Sophie (Werther). In summer 2025, she joined the National Ballet of Canada as soprano soloist in Anna Karenina, sang Laurie Moss (The Tender Land) with Toronto City Opera and the title role in The Merry Widow with Highlands Opera Studio. She made her COC mainstage debut as Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) last season. Recent concert highlights include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’, Orff’s Carmina Burana and Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra as Concerto Competition winner. A 2024 Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellow, she holds an Honours BMus and MMus in Opera from the University of Toronto.
Munich-based South Korean soprano Seonwoo Lee has been acclaimed for her artistry, with Opera Canada praising her “phenomenal control” and Opera News describing her as “a lyric soprano of extraordinary focus and clarity”.
A recent graduate of the Bayerische Staatsoper’s Opernstudio, her roles there included Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, Frasquita in Carmen, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Amanda in Le Grand Macabre, the title role in Matsukaze, the High Priestess in Aida and the First Flowermaiden in Parsifal. In the 2025/26 season, she returns to the company as Minette in Henze’s The English Cat and creates the role of the First Courtier in the world premiere of Brett Dean’s Of One Blood. She also made her role and house debut as Gilda in Rigoletto at the Royal Danish Opera.
She holds an Artist Diploma from the Royal College of Music, a master’s degree from The Juilliard School and a bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University.
Arina Verevkina, 25, is a lyrical coloratura soprano from the Altai Republic in Siberia, Russia. She graduated in 2022 from the Academic Music College of the Moscow Conservatory in Anastasia Bakastova’s class and is now a fourth-year student at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Professor Ekaterina Skusnichenko.
Arina has won several Russian and international vocal competitions, including in Finland, Belgium, Sweden, and France. In 2024, she attended a masterclass with Teodor Currentzis and performed the role of Lesovichka in A. Dvorak’s Rusalka under conductor Dmitri Jurowski. In April 2025, she appeared with the MusicAeterna Choir, and later that year joined the Accademia Rossiniana “Alberto Zedda” to participate in the Rossini Opera Festival production of Il viaggio a Reims.
French soprano Fanny Soyer trained at the Maîtrise de Paris and the Département Supérieur pour Jeunes Chanteurs before continuing her studies in Berlin and later at the Opera Academy in Copenhagen, where she completed a Master’s degree with highest distinction.
A prizewinner at several competitions, she received the Women’s Second Prize at the Canari Singing Competition (2024) and the Audience Prize at the Montreal Competition (2025).
She joined the Young Artist Program of the Danish National Opera, where she performed roles including Frasquita (Carmen), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and Echo, and took part in Don Giovanni’s Inferno by Simon Steen-Andersen.
An Académicienne of the Opéra-Comique for the 2024–2025 season, she appeared as the Second Attendant in Médée. Upcoming engagements include Lyra in Poul Ruders’ The Thirteenth Child in Odense and Frasquita at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.
British-American soprano Josephine Shaw studies at the Royal College of Music in London as a Frederick and Phyllis Treby Scholar, working with Veronica Veysey Campbell and Caroline Dowdle.
Her operatic roles include Galatea in Haendel’s Acis and Galatea, Julie Jordan in Carousel with the National Youth Music Theatre, Frog in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at the Royal College of Music, and Adina (L’elisir d’amore) and Aldimira in (Erismena) in RCM Opera Scenes.
In 2024 she was a Young Artist at the Académie Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and in 2025 she toured Italy as soprano soloist with the RCM Baroque Ensemble. She has performed in masterclasses with Dame Sarah Connolly, Barbara Hannigan and Patricia Petibon.
Josephine has been featured on BBC Click and BBC Radio London and is passionate about bringing classical music to wider audiences through social media. She collaborates with organisations including Decca Classics, the Aurora Orchestra and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Latvian soprano Estere Katrīna Pogiņa pursues an artistic career spanning both opera and chamber music. She currently studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
Her recent distinctions include Third Prize at the 5th Jāzeps Vītols International Singing Competition and participation in the XXIV Santander Music Academy, where she attended masterclasses with Bernarda Fink and performed at the Festival Palace of Cantabria.
As a chamber musician, she has appeared at venues including the Opéra de Compiègne, the Petit Palais, Arcal Lyrique and Salle Cortot in Paris.
Her operatic roles include the First Lady in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in a Philharmonie de Paris co-production conducted by Paul Daniel and directed by Mariame Clément, as well as Vénus in Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers.
Georgian soprano Ana Oniani, from Tbilisi, initially studied conducting before turning to singing. She graduated in vocal performance from the Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire (2020–2024). While still a student, she performed major operatic roles including Mimì (La Bohème), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and the Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro). Her portrayal of Violetta in La Traviata brought her early international attention. She has since appeared on international stages, including the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Royal Opera House in Muscat alongside Plácido Domingo, and with the Ningbo Symphony Orchestra in China. Other roles include Clotilde (Norma) and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte). In concert repertoire she has performed works such as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Poulenc’s Requiem. In 2025 she joined the Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris.
Chinese soprano Huiying Chen is currently studying for an Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music in London. She previously earned both a Professional Studies Certificate and a Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music.
In 2024 she received the Orff Award at the Orpheus Vocal Competition and was the winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, North Carolina District.
Her operatic repertoire includes roles such as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Sandrina in La finta giardiniera, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Aurore in Le Portrait de Manon, and Elvira in L’italiana in Algeri.
Hera Hyesang Park, a South Korean soprano of remarkable ascent, began her studies at Seoul National University before continuing at New York’s Juilliard School, from which she graduated in 2015. That same year, she won second prize at the prestigious Operalia competition. Soon after, she joined the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, making her Met debut in 2017 as the First Wood Sprite in Dvořák’s Rusalka. She has since appeared there as Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro), the Dew Fairy (Hansel and Gretel), Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), and Nannetta (Falstaff).
During the 2017–2018 season, she also made her debut at the Bavarian State Opera, further establishing herself as one of the most captivating young voices on the international opera scene.
In 2020, Hera Hyesang Park signed with Deutsche Grammophon, marking a new chapter in a career defined by elegance, artistry, and global reach.
Munich soprano Anna-Lena Elbert maintains a vibrant international career spanning repertoire from the Renaissance to today. She has appeared with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and others. A passionate advocate for new music, she collaborates closely with Gordon Kampe, Jan Müller-Wieland, and Konstantia Gourzi, creating leading roles at the Bavarian State Opera and Salzburg Festival. Highlights include Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre at major European festivals. Also devoted to early music, she is a frequent interpreter of Bach and Handel, performing at Leipzig and Schaffhausen Bachfests, and records Johann Ludwig Bach cantatas with Johanna Soller. In 2025/26 she debuts as Osira in J. C. Bach’s Zanaida and in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Jonathan Cohen.