Emily Gallagher

Emily Gallagher
Soprano

Emily Gallagher, described as “harmonically appealing and splendiferous” is a soprano based in Los Angeles. As a 2022-23 Fulbright Scholar to Austria she worked with the theater production company TaleSpin—Musical Tales for Big and Small in Vienna to produce an original children’s concert series and picture book available in four languages.

Role highlights include Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Carolina in Il matrimonio segreto, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Lucy in The Telephone, Susanna in Il segreto di Susanna, and Maguelonne/La Fée in Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon. An avid supporter of contemporary opera, she has performed roles such as Nada in Ana Sokolović’s Svadba in Belgrade, Serbia and Soprano in Missy Mazzoli’s Songs from the Uproar at the August Wilson Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also has originated multiple roles, most recently singing the role of John F. Kennedy in Dante De Silvio and Alan Olejniczak’s Minute to Midnight with Synchromy in Los Angeles.

Emily has music and stage directed numerous musicals for youth theater and created a PBS “teachable moment” about opera which aired on Pittsburgh area PBS stations. Enchanted Melodies is a fusion of Emily’s creative passions with the mission of accessible and affordable live music experiences for all.