Last season earned Ms. Rocha exciting accolades, including the 2nd Prize at COC Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition 2023 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, District Winner in the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition (Tulsa District), Encouragement Award at the George and Nora London Foundation Competition Finals, and Semi-Finalist in the first edition of the Cascais Opera Competition. She was recognized for her achievements by her birthplace with a Culture Counts Emerging Artist Award from the Mayor of Oshawa and the City Council.

During the 2023-2024 season, Emily made her debuts as Micaela (Carmen) with Southern Ontario Lyric Opera, Adina (L’elisir d’amore) with the North York Concert Orchestra, and Gilda (Rigoletto) in concert with Opera by Request in Toronto. She performed her first Mahler Rückert-Lieder with the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra as the 2023 Concerto Competition Winner, Orff’s Carmina Burana as a soloist at the Meridian Arts Centre in collaboration with North York Concert Orchestra and Pax Christi Chorale, several recitals with pianist Helen Becqué at the University of Toronto’s Walter Hall and the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto, and as a featured soloist with the Durham Youth Orchestra and the North York Concert Orchestra.

Emily has offered dazzling performances as Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Ernestine (M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le…), Cunegonde (Candide - cover), Cassandra (Disobedience - premiere), Lucie Manette (A Tale of Two Cities), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), and Beth Moss (The Tender Land). She has also studied the roles Servilia (La Clemenza di Tito – canceled due to COVID-19) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte).

As the soprano soloist, Emily performed in Fauré’s Requiem (Northumberland Orchestra and Choir), Beethoven’s Mass in C (Resound Choir), and Mozart’s Requiem (COVID-19 cancellation, Resound Choir).

Equally at home in contemporary music, Emily workshopped excerpts as Justine for the new opera Melancholia (Karlsson, Vavrek), which premiered in 2023 at the Kungliga Operan. She premiered Emanuele D’Onofrio’s Four Songs after Louise Glück, The Song my Paddle Sings (Larysa Kuzmenko), “One Day” (Emma Moss), Winter Songs (Kai Leung), The Last Moments of Our Seasons (Moss), and “Recuerdo” in the East Coast premiere of Beauty Intolerable by Sheila Silver (SongFest 2022). At SongFest, Emily was a 2022 Colburn Foundation Fellow, collaborating with esteemed artists Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, Frederica von Stade, Jake Heggie, John Harbison, Amy Burton, John Musto, Sheila Silver, Mark Trawka, Javier Arrebola, Martha Guth, and César Ulloa.