Emily D’Angelo, mezzo soprano

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 for her recent US recital debut, the mezzo-soprano is the first and only vocalist to have been presented with the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig Holstein Festival.  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 to watch, 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.

The 2022-23 season has led Ms. D’Angelo to perform worldwide, including performances with Royal Opera House, Paris Opera, Munich State Opera, with the Camerata Salzburg, and recitals at Park Avenue Armory, Koerner Hall in Toronto and at Barcelona Auditori, amongst others.

Over the past seasons, Emily D’Angelo made a string of widely acclaimed role and house debuts, further cementing her status as one of today’s most sought-after performers. Highlights include her house and role debut as Ottavia (L’incoronazione di Poppea) at Zurich Opera; her house debut as Cherubino at Berlin State Opera; her role and house debut as Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) at the Royal Opera House in London; her role debut as Idamante (Idomeneo) and performances as Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) at Bavarian State Opera; her house and role debut as Angelina in Rossini’s La Cenerentola at Semperoper Dresden; Prince Charming in Cinderella at the Metropolitan Opera; her house debut as Dorabella (Così fan tutte) and her role debut as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at Teatro alla Scala; her house debut at Paris Opera presenting, in another role debut, Siebel in Gonouds’ Faust and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia and her debut with Festival Aix en Provence with yet another role debut as Orphée in Berlioz’s Orphée et Eurydice.

Selected works to include:

Hildegard von Bingen: “O frondens virga” (arr. Mazzoli/Muñoz)

Schönberg: “Erwartung“ from Vier Lieder, op. 2

Mazzoli: “You Are the Dust” from Song From the Uproar

Livingston: “Penelope”

Newman: “Avalon – Moving Day”

Kirkland-Snider: “Dead Friend” from Penelope

Newman: “Wandering Boy” 

Clarke: “The Cloths of Heaven”

Copland: “The World Feels Dusty” from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson

Mendelssohn: “Nachtwanderer” from 6 Lieder für eine Stimme mit Begleitungdes Pianoforte, op. 7

Clarke: “The Seal Man”

Schumann: “Lorelei” from Romanzen und Balladen, op. 53

Program subject to change at artist’s discretion.

Adult $19

Senior $15

Student (non-WFU) $10

Child $5

WFU and Medical School Students, Faculty, Staff and Retirees – Free

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