Emmy Loose Emmy Loose Emmy Loose (January 22, 1914 in Ústí nad Labem – October 14, 1987 in Vienna) was an Austrian operatic soprano of Czech birth, particularly associated with soubrette roles. After vocal studies in Prague, she made her stage debut in Hanover as Blonchen in "The Abduction from the Seraglio", in 1939. She first appeared at the Vienna State Opera in 1941, as Annchen in "Der Freischütz", and remained with this theatre some 25 years, establishing herself in Mozart soubrette roles (Susanna, Zerlina, Despina). She made guest appearances at the festivals of Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, and Glyndebourne, at La Scala in
Conal Coad Fleming, Haruhisa Handa, and Roberto Abbado at Tokyo Global Concert at the New National Theatre Tokyo in Japan. Conal has performed in "Le nozze di Figaro", "Così fan tutte", "Il Seraglio", "Die Zauberflöte", "Don Giovanni", "Don Carlo", "Falstaff", "I vespri siciliani", "Aida", "Rigoletto", "Billy Budd", "Peter Grimes", "The Rape of Lucretia", "A Midsummernight's Dream", "Let's Make an Opera", "Albert Herring", "La damnation de Faust", "Fidelio", "The Barber of Seville", "L'heure espagnole", "Lucia di Lammermoor", "Don Pasquale", "L'elisir d'amore", "L'italiana in Algeri", "Il turco in Italia", "The Queen of Spades", "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria", "Norma", "Katya Kabanova", "Roméo et Juliette",