Emily Michiko Jensen
Soprano
“ Jensen, who has a big, gleaming voice, gives a spectacular performance of “Come scoglio,” tossing off its leaps and fast triplets with aplomb.”
Lisa Hirsh | SF Classical Voice
Upcoming Engagements
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Previous Engagements
2025 - 2026
Season
25-26 Artist In Residence | Opera San José
Fiordiligi (role debut) | Così fan tutte | Opera San José
Cio-Cio San (role debut) | Madama Butterfly | Opera San José
Rheya (workshop 1 & 2) | Solaris | Opera San José
Tosca | Poolside Puccini - Tosca | Opera San José
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Guest Artist | Pasta & Puccini | Florentine Opera Company
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Finalist | 2026 Wagner Society of New York Vocal Competition
“Soprano Emily Michiko Jensen..portray[s] Fiordiligi. Jensen, who has a big, gleaming voice, gives a spectacular performance of “Come scoglio,” tossing off its leaps and fast triplets with aplomb.”
Lisa Hirsh | San Francisco Classical Voice
“Our Fiordiligi, soprano Emily Michiko Jensen, is fearless in matters both vocal and postural. Between draping herself upside-down from the furniture and lifting the poor tenor onto an ottoman with illicit intent, she attacks the hugely intervalled “Come scoglio” with a dramatic-soprano ferocity.”
Michael J Vaughn | Operaville
“As a Japanese American artist taking on one of opera’s most iconic and complex roles, Emily Michiko Jensen brings a deeply personal and culturally resonant perspective to her portrayal [as Cio-Cio San].”
Lina Broydo | Arte y Cultura, Nacional
"As for our Butterfly, Emily Michiko Jensen plays the part with exceptional elegance. Vocally, she is equally as assured as her stagemates, with a bel canto in-the-mask technique that produces a spinning quality in her tone.
Her “Un bel di” is magnificent and moving.."
Michael J Vaugh | Operaville
2024 - 2025
Season
Mimì | La bohème | Opera Company of Middlebury
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Semifinalist | 2025 Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition
"Emily Michiko Jensen proved spectacular as the seamstress Mimi with her gorgeous bell-like soprano."
Jim Lowe | Rutland Herald
2020 - 2023
Seasons
2023 Career Grant Recipient | The Olga Forrai Foundation
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Semi-finalist | 2022 Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition
Semi-finalist | 2022 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition
Semi-finalist | 2022 Irene Dalis Vocal Competition, Opera San José
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2022 Apprentice Artist | Chautauqua Opera
​Tosca (cover) | Tosca | Chautauqua Opera
Susan B Anthony (cover) | Mother of Us All | Chautauqua Opera
Angel More | Mother of Us All | Chautauqua Opera
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2021-2022 Artist in Residence | Pensacola Opera
Pamina (cover) | Die Zauberflöte | Pensacola Opera
First Lady/Erste Dame | Die Zauberflöte | Pensacola Opera
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2020-2021 Baumgartner Studio Artist | Florentine Opera
Jessie | Mahagonny: Ein SongSpiel | Florentine Opera
Maguelonne, Cendrillon (cover) | Cendrillion (Viardot) | Florentine Opera*
Countess Ceprano | Rigoletto | Florentine Opera *
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Alice Ford | Falstaff | 2020 Summer Opera Tel Aviv*
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*COVID cancellation
2023 - 2024
Season
23-24 Emerging Artist | Boston Lyric Opera
Cio-Cio San (cover) | Madama Butterfly | Boston Lyric Opera
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Mimì (role debut) | La bohème | Hawai'i Opera Theatre
Musetta (role debut) | La bohème | La Frontera Opera at Borderland Arts Foundation
La Bergère, Une Pastourelle, Owl, Bat | The Child and the Spells | Salt Marsh Opera
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Guest Artist | Concert | Mass Opera
