Emily is from Neenah, Wisconsin where she took up piano, trombone and voice at a very young age. She is now a freelance opera and classical singer, and enjoys teaching as well. Emily and her dog Rosie currently live in Chicago. The most recent places Emily has been heard onstage is with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater and Ravinia Festival, Florida Grand Opera in Miami, Fort Worth Opera Festival, Madison's Bach Dynamite and Dancing, Madison Symphony and Knoxville Symphony.
Soprano Emily Birsan has been praised by the Chicago Tribune for her “fineness of expression...” and by Madison Isthmus as having “…strong, clear, handsomely balanced and beautiful voice,” and as “...an artist with a very great promise for the future.”
Soprano Emily Birsan has been praised by the Chicago Tribune for her “fineness of expression...” and by Madison Isthmus as having “…strong, clear, handsomely balanced and beautiful voice,” and as “...an artist with a very great promise for the future.”