Emily D'Angelo

Challenging conventions and pushing boundaries, Emily D’Angelo is a musical force to be reckoned with. Her striking stage presence, vocal authority and expressive artistry has taken the opera and concert world by storm in recent years. Born in Toronto, Canada in 1994 to a musical family, D’Angelo was encouraged to sing from an early age by her parents and pianist grandmother. The mezzo-soprano built a solid foundation for her musicianship as a member of the Toronto Children’s Chorus and, after finishing her bachelor’s degree in music at the University of Toronto, she joined the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio. In the summers of 2014 and 2015, D’Angelo completed a fellowship at the Ravinia Steans Institute, where she honed her interpretation of and dedication to recital and concert repertoire. Despite being known for her wide-ranging repertoire and for championing contemporary composers, D’Angelo maintains a special relationship with the music of Mozart. Her innate feeling for his roles was clear from the moment of her stage debut as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi in 2016 and has subsequently deepened with strikingly successful debut performances at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. D’Angelo joined the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Development Program in 2017 and made her debut on the Met stage in 2018. That same year, she made her international breakthrough when she became the first contestant to win all four top prizes at the Operalia competition in the event’s 26-year history. In 2019, D’Angelo became the first vocalist ever to receive the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and was chosen by New York’s Lincoln Center as one of its 2020 Emerging Artists. Beyond the opera stage, her credits include engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the world premiere of a song cycle by Ana Sokolović and performances of new music by, among others, Unsuk Chin and Matthew Aucoin. D’Angelo signed an exclusive agreement with Deutsche Grammophon in 2021 and released her debut album, enargeia, in the same year. The recording was initially inspired by the medieval abbess and polymath Hildegard of Bingen, whose music D’Angelo sings in new arrangements by leading American composers Missy Mazzoli and Sarah Kirkland Snider. enargeia also features original pieces by both Mazzoli and Snider, together with two works by the Grammy-winning Hildur Guðnadóttir.