Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin[2] Pogorelc studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, graduating in 2018.
[2] She performed at the Glimmerglass Festival, as Romilda in Handel's Serse as Berenice in Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro,[4] and as Johanna in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.
[2] Pogorelc became a member of the Bavarian State Opera in 2020, where her first role was Zaunschlüpfer in Die Vögel by Walter Braunfels, followed by Gretel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Sofia in Rossini's Il signor Bruschino, Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, and Ilia in Idomeneo by W. A.
[4] She appeared as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro as part of the 2021 Munich Opera Festival.
[8][9] In 2023, she made her house and role debut as Amina in Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula at Semperoper Dresden, in a new production by Rolando Villazón.