Emily D'Angelo

Emily D’Angelo is an artist who breaks conventions and pushes boundaries. With her powerful stage presence, vocal mastery, and expressive artistry, the singer has taken the opera and concert world by storm in recent years. Her repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to minimalism, and her commitment to the works of contemporary composers is highly esteemed. Thus, it was no surprise that her first recital in the USA, given in September 2022 at New York’s Park Avenue Armory with music from the 19th to the 21st centuries, captivated critics – The New York Times, for example, praised her "wonderful, powerful" singing and called her "one of the world’s best young singers." Exclusive interviews with Emily D’Angelo Watch on STAGE+ D’Angelo signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon in May 2021, and her debut album, *enargeia*, was released in October 2021. The recording featured works by Hildegard von Bingen in new arrangements by leading American composers Missy Mazzoli and Sarah Kirkland Snider, as well as original works by Mazzoli and Snider and two pieces by Hildur Guðnadóttir. Among other accolades, *enargeia* was named Classical Album of the Year (Solo Artist) at the 2022 Canadian Juno Awards and received the Best Concept Album award at the Gramophone Awards later that year ("her mezzo has an incredible range, intensity, and power in the lower register, crystalline clarity in the upper register, with engaging urgency, security, and balance"). *freezing* is Emily D’Angelo’s second solo album for Deutsche Grammophon, featuring 17 songs from the folk, art song, and other genres, digitally released in August 2024. Together with instrumentalists Sophia Muñoz, Bruno Helstroffer, and Jonas Niederstadt, D’Angelo offers an anthology that includes songs by John Dowland and Henry Purcell and extends to music by Rebecca Clarke, Zoltán Kodály, and W. C. Handy, as well as newer works by Philip Glass, Randy Newman, Jeanine Tesori, Cecilia Livingston, "Adrian Ira" Kramer, and the US band Ween. Emily D’Angelo dedicated a large part of her 2022/23 season to Handel’s operas. She made her role debuts as Ruggiero (*Alcina*) at Covent Garden, Ariodante at the Paris Opéra, and Juno (*Semele*) at the Bavarian State Opera. Additionally, she sang excerpts from *Ariodante* at her successful Wigmore Hall debut in London (with The English Concert and Harry Bicket). "Not only were the seemingly effortless coloratura or the full timbre of her voice impressive, but above all, the emotional identification with Ariodante in the deep sorrow and crushing bitterness of ‘Scherza infida’ and the burgeoning hope in ‘Dopo notte, atra e funesta’" (The Times). Of a completely different nature was her equally successful performance at Berlin Fashion Week, where she collaborated with designer and artist Esther Perbandt in the immersive mixed reality presentation *Astro Noir Lab*, presenting material from *enargeia*. Highlights of her operatic work in the 2023/24 season included the role of Jess, a drone pilot and former fighter pilot, in the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s new opera *Grounded* at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC; Sesto in *Giulio Cesare* at the Paris Opéra; Cherubino at the Berlin State Opera; Idamante at the Bavarian State Opera; and Dorabella in her house debut at the Vienna State Opera. On the concert stage, she gave her first solo recital at Carnegie Hall, sang Berg’s *Sieben frühe Lieder* and an *enargeia* suite (arranged for voice and orchestra by Jarkko Riihimäki) as a Spotlight Artist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and performed Alma Mahler’s *Sieben Lieder* (orchestrated by David and Colin Matthews) for the first time with the Orquesta Nacional de España and Anja Bihlmaier at Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional. In the role of Jess in *Grounded*, she is the star of the opening production of the 2024/25 season at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (September/October 2024). She is among the soloists in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall (a charity concert for children and young people in Ukraine, October 23) and at the Konzerthaus Berlin (December 30 and 31). Furthermore, D’Angelo will participate in an Advent concert at the Dresden Frauenkirche (November 30) and sing in Handel’s *Messiah* in Montreal with the Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin (December 9 and 11). In the new year, her role debut as Octavian in *Der Rosenkavalier* at the Berlin State Opera is scheduled (January/February 2025), followed by Idamante in Berlin (February/March) and Donna Elvira and Dorabella at the Vienna State Opera (March/April). Emily D’Angelo was born in Toronto in 1994 into a musical family. From a very early age, she was inspired to sing by her parents and grandmother, herself a pianist, and received musical training in the Toronto Children’s Chorus. During her school years, she took cello lessons, later earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto, and was subsequently accepted into the Ensemble Studio of the Canadian Opera Company. In the summers of 2014 and 2015, she continued her training at Ravinia’s Steans Institute to further perfect her skills as a recital and concert singer. She became a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program in 2017 and made her house debut at the Met in 2018. In the same year, she achieved her decisive international breakthrough by winning all four main prizes of the international singing competition Operalia, a first in its 26-year history. In 2019, D’Angelo became the first singer ever to receive the prestigious Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and she was named one of the New York Lincoln Center’s Emerging Artists 2020. 9/2024