Emily Tate Daniel

Hailed for her “powerful, rich voice with great control”, Emily Tate Daniel is an American soprano on the rise in a wide variety of vocal repertoire. In the 2023 - 2024 season, Emily sings the title role in Luisa Miller with Verismo Opera, premieres Poe Songs by Marie Herrington with the Bay Area Arts Alliance, and joins the OperaWorks Engaged Artist Program.

Emily is a recent graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she was a grateful recipient of the Iphigenia Wise Ochs Scholarship and a Professional Development Grant. At SFCM, Emily participated in masterclasses with Michael Fabiano, Gerald Martin Moore, and Martin Katz. In March 2022, Emily performed the role of Tito in an innovative new production of La clemenza di Tito directed by James Darrah and Raviv Ullman.

In the 2022 - 2023 season, Emily joined Opera San José to cover Alice Ford in Falstaff and Livermore Valley Opera to cover the title role Tosca. Other role highlights include performing Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte at Asheville Lyric Opera and covering Micaëla in Carmen with Long Island Opera. Emily has been a Fellow/Young Artist at programs such as Asheville Lyric Opera, the 3340 Recital Series Somatic Song Institute, Operafest Sewanee, Sewanee Winterfest, and CoOPERAtive.

In Summer 2021, Emily was seen in several performances at Operafest Sewanee as part of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. Highlights from Operafest include performing selections from Strauss' Four Last Songs and Amy Beach's Two Songs, Op.100 during the Faculty Artist Series concerts. Operafest concluded with Much Ado About Opera: Shakespeare Opera Scenes, in which Emily performed the role of Lady Macbeth in a scene from Verdi's Macbeth.

Emily is an alumnus of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she graduated with a Master’s degree in Voice Pedagogy and Performance under the tutelage of Dr. Steven Rainbolt. During her time at Peabody, Emily was seen as the Mother in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel with Peabody Opera Outreach, Aunt Norris (cover) in the U.S. premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park, Greta Fiorentino in Street Scene at the Modell Lyric Opera House, and Fiordiligi (cover) in Così fan tutte. Emily also appeared as Female Soloist #5 in the world premiere of Stinney by Frances Pollock and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Brooklyn Summer Opera Institute.

Active in competition, Emily was a semi-finalist in the Orpheus Vocal Competition, the CS Music Competition, the Premiere Opera Foundation Competition, and the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians; a finalist in the Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra Hennings-Fischer Young Artist Competition and the Progressive Musicians Online Classics Competition; and a winner in the Dorothy Lincoln-Smith Voice Awards.

When she’s not singing, you can find Emily searching for her new favorite coffee shop, reading novels about time-travel or the multiverse, or at the dog park with her husband and two dogs.