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date = "2019-01-29T19:07:46+00:00"
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Praised for her “large, steely instrument,” and “coloratura flourishes”, (Palm Beach Arts Paper") soprano Emily Blair joins Palm Beach Opera as a Benenson Young Artist for the 2018-2019 season. During her residency, she will be singing Annina in _La traviata,_ cover Donna Anna in _Don Giovanni_, cover Rosalinda in _Die Fledermaus,_ performing the role for the family performance of _The Revenge of the Bat_.  
  
Last season, Blair joined City Lyric Opera (formerly ARE Opera) covering Juliette in Gounod’s _Roméo et Juliette_. In the 2016-2017 season, she was named Semi-Finalist in both the Young Patronesses of Opera Competition and the Opera Birmingham Competition, and made her debut with Ping & Woof Opera in Portland, Oregon as Angelica in Handel’s _Orlando_.

Previously, Blair joined Portland Opera as The Mother in _Hansel and Gretel_ in their outreach program, and sang Countess Alamviva with Opera Upper West’s inaugural production of _Le nozze di Figaro_. Internationally, she sang Mrs. Grose  in _The Turn of the Screw_ with Opera on the Avalon and Cleopatra in _Giulio Cesare_ with the Trentino Music Festival under the baton of Maestro David Jackson of The Metropolitan Opera and directed by David Gately.

In 2014, she received an Encouragement award from The Metropolitan National Council Auditions New York District. She has twice been a fellow with the CoOperative Program in Princeton, NJ, working with Nova Thomas, Susan Ashbaker, and Gina Lapinski.

Blair is a graduate of Mannes College The New School for Music and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. As a member of the Mannes Opera, she performed scenes from _Don Giovanni_  and _Die Zauberflöte_ with the Opera Apprentice Studio, and sang roles In _Suor Angelica, Der Rosenkavalier,_ and _Werther_ during her studies at Indiana University.

A native of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Blair is currently based in New York City.