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Canadian-Italian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo made her stage debut in 2016 as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi under the baton of James Conlon. She is currently in her second year as a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera.
The 2018/2019 season marks her debut season on stage at the Metropolitan Opera, where her roles include Annio in La clemenza di Tito, Second Lady in The Magic Flute, and Soeur Mathilde in Dialogues des Carmélites, which will be conducted by music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and broadcasted in movie theatres across the world as a Met Live in HD. This season will include a return to the Canadian Opera Company for her role debut as Dorabella in Così fan tutte, and company debuts with Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, and the Santa Fe Opera as Dorabella in Così fan tutte.
In the 2017/2018 season, D’Angelo made her role debut as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at The Glimmerglass Festival in a new production by Francesca Zambello, and her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in excerpts from Die Zauberflöte under Gustavo Dudamel. Her season also included performances and a recording of Vaughn Williams Serenade to Music with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Grammy Nominated for Best Classical Compendium 2019), Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Montclair Orchestra, and concerts at the Teatro del Lago in Chile, and at The Society for the Four Arts in Palm Beach. A passionate recitalist, this season also included her recital debuts at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centre in Athens, Greece, at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center, which was filmed for the first ever international production of PBS's Live From Lincoln Center.
D’Angelo was the winner of the 2018 Operalia Competition, where she was awarded the First Prize, Zarzuela Prize, Birgit Nilsson Prize, and Audience Prize. She was the winner of the 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition Grand Finals, the 2018 George London Competition, the 2017 Innsbruck International Cesti Competition for Baroque Opera, the 2017 Gerda Lissner International Voice Competition, the 2017 Canadian Opera Company Quilico Awards Competition, the 2016 American National Opera Association Competition, and the 2015 Canadian Opera Company Centre Stage Competition. She was awarded Second Prize, the Radio-Canada Audience Choice Award, and the Best Canadian Artist Award at the 2018 Montreal International Competition, and was also awarded Second Prize at the 2017 Neue Stimmen Competition and the 2015 OREL Foundation Ziering-Conlon Competition. In 2016 she was honoured with the Premio Monini from the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, was a grateful recipient of the Jaqueline Desmarais Foundation Grant, and was named one of Canada's "Top 30 Under 30" Classical Musicians.
The 2016/2017 season saw her company debuts at the Canadian Opera Company as Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Annio in La clemenza di Tito. She performed the world premiere of Ana Sokolović's song cycle dawn always begins in the bones, and opened Toronto’s Contemporary Music Festival "21C” as a soloist with the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra performing Unsuk Chin's snagS&Snarls and the Canadian premiere of Matthew Aucoin's The Orphic Moment.
Hailing from Toronto, D'Angelo received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Toronto where she was the winner of the Norcop Prize in Song, the Women's Musical Club of Toronto Centennial Scholarship, and the Tecumseh Sherman Rogers Graduating Award. She was a two-time vocal fellow at the Ravinia Festival Steans Institute, and is a graduate of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio.
