Emily Rossum

Emily Rossum was born in New York City, New York, an only child of Cheryl, a corporate photographer and a banker. Her family is Jewish. She is the niece of Vera Wang, whom she related to by marriage. Her parents divorced when her mother was pregnant and she was raised by her mother, having only met her father twice. Her song "Anymore" from her album Inside Out, is based on this experience.

Your Ad Here

Upon singing "Happy Birthday" in 12 different keys, Emily Rossum was welcomed by the director, Elena Doria as a member of the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus. Over the course of five years, Rossum sang onstage, and, along with the many other members of the chorus, with the likes of such opera greats as Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. For $5 a night (there was once a horse on stage with her who got $150 a night[citation needed]), Emily Rossum sang in five different languages, in 20 different operas such as La Boheme, Turandot, a Carnegie Hall presentation of The Damnation of Faust and A Midsummer Night's Dream. among others, and worked under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli in Carmen.




By age twelve, Rossum had grown too big for the children's costumes, and an increasing interest in pursuing acting led to her getting an agent, and subsequent auditions for many acting roles. Emily Rossum has joked in interviews that her vocal talent and affinity for music developed because her mother always listened to classical music and operas while she was pregnant with her.

Your Ad Here

Your Ad Here