Korean Australian soprano Gemma Nha recently completed her tenure with the Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, where she made her house debut as Page in Rigoletto, reprised Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, and performed as Jess and covered Ashley in Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners. This summer, she performs with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall and with Wolf Trap Opera as Soeur Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites. Starting in August, she will be soloist at the Volksoper Wien.

Nha’s repertoire ranges from Mozart to contemporary musical theatre, performing roles such as Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Schlosstheater Schönbrunn), Gretel (PlusOpera) and Tuptim in The King and I (Seefestspiele Mörbisch). Nha has debuted with the Albany Symphony at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall and Grant Park Music Festival in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. She was the first female singer to win first prize at the Seoul International Music Competition and was a nationalist semifinalist of the 2024 Laffont Metropolitan Opera Competition.

Other credits include Ruth Baldwin in Later the Same Evening (Juilliard Opera), Flerida in Erismena (Juilliard Opera), Barbarina (Volksoper Wien) and soprano soloist in Händel’s Dixit Dominus and Messiah.

Nha has seen success at multiple competitions, including the Lotte Lenya Competition; the Esther and Myron Wilson, Marcella Sembrich and Gerda Lissner Foundation international vocal competitions; the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation Bel Canto Award; and Sydney Eisteddfod.

Gemma Nha holds the Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School as a Toulmin Scholar and Kovner Fellow and a B.A. in Voice from The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.