A member of of the Houston Grand Opera chorus since 2013, Emily Louise Robinson was most recently seen on the HGO main stage as a Flower Maiden in HGO's 2024 production of Parsifal. Her main stage debut with the company was as Sister Valentine in Dialogues of the Carmelites. 

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Fall 2024 Robinson debuted her original muti-media performance Harmony Unbound which was generously sponsored by a grant from the Houston Arts Alliance

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Robinson has been a Young Artist at Teatro Nuovo and Opera Colorado. While at Opera Colorado she covered the role Hester Prynne in the world premiere of Lori Laitman's The Scarlet Letter. She can be heard on the Naxos recording of The Scarlet Letter in the role of Goodwife One. Other roles include Michaela in Carmen, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, High Priestess in Aida. During her time at Opera Colorado she was seen by thousands of community members and school children performing with their touring shows. 
 

Robinson received her master’s degree from New England Conservatory where she debuted the role of June Jenkins in Dan Shore’s NOA prize winning opera An Embarrassing Position. Her undergraduate degree is from The University of Chicago where she studied Musicology. After graduation she worked for the Center for Italian Opera Studies under the direction of Rossini scholar Philip Gossett as a research assistant and proof editor.  She assisted with the production of a critical edition of Rossini band music and the critical edition of Le comte Ory, both published by Bärenreiter.

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Emily is now based in Houston, where she received a Performers Certificate from the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. There she sang the title role in Frau Margot, Beatriz in La hija de Rapaccini (Rapaccini's Daughter), Love Simpson in Cold Sassy Tree, and Magda in The Consul. Locally, she has also performed the role Mimi in La bohème  and was a 2015 Gulf Coast Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions.