Soprano Emma DiSanto, hailing from Indianapolis, Indiana, is a second-year graduate student at the IU Jacobs School of Music pursuing a Master of Music in Vocal Performance under the tutelage of Heidi Grant-Murphy and Timothy Noble. She also earned her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance with a minor in Arts Administration at the Jacobs School studying with Timothy Noble. She has been featured in the choruses of The Merry Widow, Eugene Onegin, Die Fledermaus, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, and Mason Bates’ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, a co-production between the IU Jacobs School of Music and the Metropolitan Opera. She was recently seen as Morgana in Handel’s Alcina with IU Opera Theater in February 2025. DiSanto will return to the IU stage as Mary Crawford in Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park in February 2026 and in the chorus of Oklahoma! in April 2026. Outside of IU, she premiered Mondo Novo as Philomela at the Vienna Summer Music Festival in Florida, then made her international debut in Vienna as Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica) and covered Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte). Other opera credits include Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte) with the Berlin Opera Academy and more recently, Gilda (Rigoletto) with the La Musica Lirica program in Novafeltria, Italy. She is looking forward to competing in the district round of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition this season.