Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the world’s special young singers,” Emily D’Angelo has continued her meteoric rise and firmly established herself as one of the most exciting and critically acclaimed artists of her generation. Called "wondrous and powerful" by The NY Times, she is the first and only vocalist to have been presented with the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig Holstein Festival. D'Angelo made her stage debut, at only 21 years of age, as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, where she was awarded the 2016 Monini Prize.
D’Angelo opens the Metropolitan Opera's 2024-25 season in the leading role of Jess in the premiere of two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s opera Grounded. She returns to the Staatsoper Berlin for her highly anticipated role debut of Octavian in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, a role she reprises at the Wiener Staatsoper later in the season. Further in Berlin she sings Idamante in Idomeneo alongside Rolando Villazón in the title role. At the Wiener Staatsoper D’Angelo revives Donna Elvira and Dorabella in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. D’Angelo returns to the role of Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at both the Bayerische Staatsoper and at the Metropolitan Opera.
A sought-after concert performer, this season D’Angelo will star at the annual Advent Concert of the ZDF, German national television, in the atmospheric Frauenkirche in Dresden. She returns to her native Canada to perform Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin in the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal, and joins the RSB orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski for the New Year concerts of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at Konzerthaus Berlin. She will appear with Tonkünstler Orchester and Alessandro de Marchi to sing Haydn's cantata Arianna a Naxos at the Grafenegg Festival in Austria, and at the Madrid Teatros del Canal in recital with pianist Sophia Muñoz.
The 2024-25 season also holds the release of D’Angelo’s awaited second album freezing on Deutsche Grammophon. freezing features music by Dowland, Purcell, Kodály, Philip Glass, Randy Newman and Jeanine Tesori, among many more. The album comprises seventeen songs drawn from the folk tradition, art song and beyond. She is joined on freezing by Sophia Muñoz (piano), Bruno Helstroffer (electric guitar) and Jonas Niederstadt (bass guitar, synth, percussion).
In recent seasons D’Angelo has made a string of widely acclaimed debuts. Highlights include her titular role debut as Handel’s Ariodante at the Opéra national de Paris, her role debut as Ruggiero (Alcina) at Royal Opera House in London, her role debut as Prince Charming (Cinderella) at the Metropolitan Opera, and her role debut as Juno (Semele) at the Bayerische Staatsoper. She made both house and role debuts as Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) at the Royal Opera House in London, Ottavia (L’incoronazione di Poppea) at the Opernhaus Zürich, Angelina (La Cenerentola) at Semperoper Dresden, and Orfée in the Gluck/Berlioz Orfée et Eurydice in concert at the Festival Aix-en-Provence. She made her house debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper as as Cherubino where she returned for her role debut as Idamante (Idomeneo), and made her house debut at Teatro alla Scala as Dorabella (Così fan tutte) where she returned for her role debut as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni). She made her house debut at the Opéra national de Paris in Il barbiere di Siviglia and, in yet another role debut, as Siebel in Gonoud’s Faust.
Emily D’Angelo is a keen recitalist and regularly performs in storied concert halls, collaborating with the world’s most acclaimed orchestras, ensembles, and conductors. On an international tour with the English Concert and Harry Bicket, D’Angelo made her debut at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in the title role of Handel's Serse, and her Wigmore Hall debut performing excerpts from Ariodante. In 2024 she gave her solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall in a program which included songs of her sophomore album freezing, and recently returned to New York’s Park Avenue Armory, performing songs of her debut album enargeia. As the 2023-24 Spotlight Artist at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra she presented Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder and a multi-city tour of the orchestral suite enargeia. On the 231st anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s death, she sang his Requiem in Salzburg with the Camerata Salzburg, at the Metropolitan Opera “For Ukraine” benefit concert, and at the Salzburg Summer Festival with Manfred Honeck. She debuted Alma Mahler’s Sieben Lieder with the Orquesta Nacionales de Espana and Anja Bihlmaier in Madrid, and sang Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Boston Handel and Haydn Society and Raphael Pichon. She performed the role of Sesto in La clemenza di Tito in her debut with the Chicago Symphony and James Conlon at the Ravinia Festival, made further debuts with the Latvian National Symphony and the Oviedo Filarmonía, and presented recitals at the Konserthuset Stockholm, the Filarmónica de Bilbao, the Peralada Music Festival, the Ravinia Festival, Toronto’s Koerner Hall, L'Auditori de Barcelona, and the Bratislava Festival.
D’Angelo won first prize in numerous international competitions including the Metropolitan Opera Competition, the George London Competition, the Gerda Lissner Competition, the Innsbruck Baroque Competition, the Canadian Opera Company Competition, and the Operalia Competition, where a historic win included First Prize, the Zarzuela Prize, the Birgit Nilsson Prize and Audience Prize. She was a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, one of Canada's "Top 30 Under 30" Classical Musicians, and WQXR NYC Public Radio’s "40 Under 40" singers. In the 2018-19 season Emily D’Angelo was heard on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera as Annio in La clemenza di Tito, Second Lady in The Magic Flute, and Soeur Mathilde in Dialogues des Carmélites, broadcast in theatres across the world as part of the Met’s Live in HD series. She performed Dorabella in Così fan tutte with Santa Fe Opera and the Canadian Opera Company, where she returned in 2020 for Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia: a role she debuted at the Glimmerglass Festival in a new production by Francesca Zambello in 2018.
In previous seasons D’Angelo has performed diverse repertoire including Rossini’s Giovanna d’Arco with the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Montclair Orchestra, Respighi’s Il tramonto with Quartet 212 at the Princeton University Concert Series, Unsuk Chin's snagS&Snarls and Matthew Aucoin's The Orphic Moment at the Toronto Contemporary Music Festival, and the world premiere of Ana Sokolović's song cycle dawn always begins in the bones.
D'Angelo recorded Handel's Serse with the English Concert released by Linn Records in 2023, and in 2021 she recorded a recital program with pianist Sophia Muñoz for Vocal Arts DC, which continues to stream online via Deutsche Grammophon’s Stage+ platform. She can be heard in Vaughn Williams's Serenade to Music in a Grammy Nominated and JUNO Award-winning live recording with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Ravel’s Cinq mélodies populaires grecques with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on their album “Odyssey,” which was filmed and recorded by PBS “Live from Lincoln Center" at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Athens; and in excerpts from West Side Story on Decca's “The Magic of Mantovani" with Joseph Calleja and Renée Fleming.
Emily D’Angelo is a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive recording artist. Her debut album energeia presents music from the 12th and 21st centuries by composers Hildegard von Bingen, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Missy Mazzoli and Sarah Kirkland Snider, and is “a soundworld, bound together by the multi-sensory ancient concept of enargeia." It received JUNO and Gramophone awards in 2022, was named one of the 50 best albums of 2021 by NPR, featured on NPR's 100 best songs of 2021, and named the best Canadian classical album of 2021 by the CBC. D'Angelo performed songs from enargeia at the 2023 Berlin Fashion Week as a part of her close collaboration and creative partnership with Berlin-based designer and artist Esther Perbandt: Astro Noir Lab combined live music, virtual reality, and 3D graphics to create an immersive mixed reality presentation met with critical acclaim.
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