AMICI Gala Concert - Emily Treigle
Saturday, September 13, 2025, 5:00PM Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans
AMICI Gala Concert for 2025 will feature New Orleans mezzo-soprano, Emily Treigle.
A New Orleans native and Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, mezzo-soprano Emily Treigle is regarded as "endlessly watchable and a consummate musician." She will be performing a selection of opera arias and art songs. Carol Rausch, Director of the Loyola Opera Theatre, will be the collaborative pianist.
Emily is the grand-daughter of famed New Orleans native, Norman Treigle who made his operatic debut in 1947 with the New Orleans Opera, as the Duke of Verona in Roméo et Juliette.
Norman Treigle became arguably the top bass-baritone of the Americas, and was acclaimed as one of the world's foremost singing-actors. He sang in many experimental productions and participated in several important premieres. He and Beverly Sills opened the New York City Opera’s inaugural season at Lincoln Center in 1966 with Giulio Cesare.
On October 12, 2012, Treigle Plaza in New Orleans was dedicated, in the presence of Phyllis Treigle and Audrey Schuh. It is the elevated area in front of the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts, in New Orleans, including the great fountain. The Dedication ceremony preceded a Gala Concert, by the New Orleans Opera, starring Plácido Domingo, with Patricia Clarkson as hostess.
This Spring, Emil Treigle made her international debut with the Canadian Opera Company as Filipyevna in Eugene Onegin and Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana and in December of 2025 she will make her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Second Lady in The Magic Flute.
She will star in the New Orleans Opera’s Dialogues of the Carmélites with her mother, Phyllis Treigle, during the 2026 festival. This opera, by Francois Poulenc, centers on an incident during the French Revolution when sixteen members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France were executed by the guillotine in Paris on July 17, 1794.
On December 12, 2024, The Late Pope Francis officially declared the sixteen nuns of Compiègne, as saints through the rare procedure of “equipollent canonization.”
The New Orleans Opera will be presenting Dialogues in an actual convent in the French Quarter - The Old Ursuline Convent at 1112 Chartres St, New Orleans.
Emily’s mother, Phyllis Treigle is also New Orleans native and noted soprano. She graduated from Loyola University of the South's College of Music and made her professional debut with the New Orleans Opera as Flora Bervoix, in La Traviata, in 1980.
Emily Treigle pursued her Master of Music degree at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in 2020. She is also a graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA).
