Emily D’Angelo

The Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo was a member of the Ensemble Studio of the Canadian Opera Company, and of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. There she sang roles including Annio (La clemenza di Tito), Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte) and Soeur Mathilde (Dialogues des Carmélites).

Since then, important role and house debuts have taken her as Ottavia (L’incoronazione di Poppea) to the Zurich Opera, as Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) to the Berlin State Opera, as Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Idamante (Idomeneo) and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) to the Bavarian State Opera, as Angelina (La Cenerentola) to the Semperoper Dresden and as Dorabella (Così fan tutte) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) to La Scala, Milan. She returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Prince Charmant in Massenet’s Cendrillon, sang Siébel (Faust) and Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Paris Opéra and appeared as Orphée in Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

Works by Mozart and Handel have been a particular focus of Emily D’Angelo’s 2022/23 season. In July 2023 she appears as Juno in the Munich Opera Festival premiere of Handel’s Semele at the Bavarian State Opera and makes her debut at the Salzburg Festival in Mozart’s Requiem.

Her wide-ranging concert repertory reaches from the Baroque to contemporary music, with performances in numerous international concert halls and with leading orchestras. Highlights have included concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the world premiere of a song cycle by Ana Sokolović, performances of works by Unsuk Chin and Matthew Aucoin and her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2022 with The English Concert under Harry Bicket.

Emily D’Angelo is a prizewinner of numerous international competitions. She won the first prize in the International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti in Innsbruck, the Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, as well as all four top prizes in Operalia.

Emily D’Angelo is an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon. In 2021 she released her debut album, enargeia.