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Heralded by Opera Canada for her “strong, clear, and confident” sound, Tkaronto-born mezzo-soprano Emma Yee (she/her) is an interdisciplinary musical artist. Emma is in her Master’s in Opera and Voice Performance program at McGill in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal, QC), studying with Tracy Smith Bessette. Previously, she studied at Mount Allison University in Mi’kma’ki (Sackville, NB) with Vicki St. Pierre. Performance highlights include Elegies (Opera 5), Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas (Opera McGill), alto soloist in Messiah (Christ Church Cathedral), Mère Jeanne in Dialogues des Carmélites (Opera McGill), Serse in Serse (Halifax Summer Opera Festival), and Sibella in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Motyer-Fancy Theatre). When Emma is not on stage, she can often be seen stage managing productions such as Dialogues des Carmélites (Opera McGill), An Inspector Calls (Motyer-Fancy Theatre), PRÉCIPICE (Tintamarre), and The Sapphic Passion (Sapphonix Collective), where she also served as stage director. Emma is informed by her role as a performer-scholar, with a publication in Nota bene titled “Liberatory Praxis in Operatic Rehearsal Processes,” a recent talk at the McGill Graduate Music Symposium titled “Trains, Drones, and Continued Routes of Coloniality in Opera,” and research related to trauma-informed performance practice, music and colonialism, music and politics, and operatic power structures.