The Hungarian soprano started singing at eighteen at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and went on to perfect her skills at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence alongside Leonardo De Lisi.

She quickly grabbed the musical world’s attention by winning several prestigious competitions – First Prize at the Cesti Competition in Innsbruck, the Verbier Festival Academy, the Prima Primissima Junior Prize in Hungary, etc. Her career started when she sang Sesto in Giulio Cesare by Haendel conducted by Alan Curtis, and then Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro at the Hungarian State Opera House. A few years later, she made her blazing debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in the title role of Elena de Cavalli.

Emöke Baráth’s talent unfolds in a vast repertoire conducted by some of the most famous conductors. Here are a few examples: La Musica and Euridice in L’Orfeo by Monteverdi (Iván Fischer and Emiliano Gonzalez Toro); Romilda in Il Xerse by Cavalli (Emmanuelle Haïm); the title role Hipermestra by Cavalli (William Christie); Morgana in Alcine by Haydn (György Vashegyi and Adám Fischer), Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart (Marc Minkowski).

She works with many prestigious orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France and de Lyon, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and many baroque ensembles such as Il Pomo d’Oro, Europa Galante, Le Concert d’Astrée, Les Arts Florissants, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Concerto Köln, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin or The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Emöke establishes herself as an accomplished Mozartean proven in her roles as Ilia in Idomeneo at the Hungarian State Opera House, Sifare in Mitridate at the Copenhagen and Gothenburg Opera Houses with Ádám Fischer, as Dorabella in Così fan tutte by Mozart conducted by Giovanni Antonini. She played Donna Anna conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, then Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with Michele Spotti. Haydn will also be at the centre of the 2023/2024 season with Angelica d’Orlando Paladino conducted by Giovanni Antonini in Madrid and Barcelona.

The baroque repertoire is still present. She is thus Minerva and Amore in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria by Monteverdi conducted by Emiliano Gonzalez Toro all over Europe, and she embodies three great Haendelian heroes: Ginevra from Ariodante at the Opéra du Rhin with Christopher Moulds, Armida in Rinaldo with Thibault Noallu and Les Accents, and Maria Maddalena in La Resurrezione with Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge at the Festival de Saint-Denis.

An exclusive Erato-Warner Classics artist, Emöke released her first solo disc Voglio Cantar in 2019, dedicated to the finest pages of the Seicento. Her recent disc Dualità devoted to arias by Haendel, was released in 2022, and conducted by Philippe Jaroussky.