Emilie
Haaning
Lied, opera and sacred music.
Trained at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. Opera roles on stage, soloist with the Aarhus and Aalborg Symphony Orchestras, and a firm footing in the sacred repertoire.
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Biography
Emilie Haaning is a German-Danish soprano. She studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Professor Mareike Morr and at the Mozarteum Universität Salzburg with Professor Andreas Macco. She completed her master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, where she studied with the pianist Søren Rastogi. She has also received tuition from Brigitte Fassbaender, Andreas Scholl and Stephan Genz.
Her opera repertoire includes Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Magda Sorel (The Consul), Cupid/Minerva (Orpheus in the Underworld) and the Second Lady (The Magic Flute). Professional engagements include Nanette in Lortzing’s Der Wildschütz at Opernbühne Maxlrain and the First Noble Orphan in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier at Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin. In the spring of 2026 she appeared as Fiordiligi in Den Fynske Opera’s production of Così fan tutte.
As a concert soloist Emilie has appeared with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Bach-Selskabet Aarhus and the Randers Chamber Orchestra, working with conductors such as Nick Davies, Ion Marin, Geoffrey Paterson, Carsten Seyer-Hansen and David Riddle.
From 2016 to 2022 she was artistic director of the concert society Junge Musik in Schwerin e.V., where she conducted choral and orchestral projects, including several premieres of works by composers from Schwerin.
In 2018 she received a scholarship from the Lotte Lehmann Academy, and in 2025 a grant from the Gudrun og Erik Kauffeldt Foundation.
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