
Carl Nielsen's Christmas
Aarhus Chamber Orchestra celebrates Carl Nielsen's music with a Christmas concert featuring his flute concerto and new orchestral arrangements of his Christmas songs, with soprano and communal singing.
Emilie Haaning Christensen is a Danish-German soprano trained at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, now a master's student at Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium in Aarhus. She has sung roles at Opernbühne Maxlrain in Salzburg and the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater in Schwerin, and in spring 2026 took on Fiordiligi in Mozart's "Così fan tutte" at Den Fynske Opera. She performs both as an opera singer and as a concert soloist with orchestras such as Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, often in churches and concert halls around Aarhus.
Emilie Haaning Christensen sang the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's "Così fan tutte" at Den Fynske Opera from May 22 to June 6, 2026.
She was a soloist at the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra's concert 'Last Night of the Proms', where she sang songs by Carl Nielsen and Frederick Delius.
She performed as a vocal soloist in a concert featuring Mendelssohn's 'Te Deum' at Vor Frue Kirke in Aarhus.
She is announced as a soloist at Ensemble Storstrøm's New Year's concert 2027 at KUMUS together with baritone Asmus Hanke Frederiksen.
She was listed as one of the artists at the Herning Opera Festival in 2025.