Looking Ahead to the 2015-16 Season

As part of a busy season, Angela Meade sings Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore on both sides of the Atlantic: at the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Palacia de la Opera in A Coruña. She also revisits her celebrated portrayal of Bellini’s Norma at Los Angeles Opera and performs selections from Don Giovanni in the Baltimore Symphony’s “Off the Cuff” series. In concert, she returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra for performances of Mahler’s Eighth under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the symphony’s U.S. premiere, as well as to her alma mater, Pacific Lutheran University, for a Christmas concert that will be broadcast on PBS. To round out the season, To round out the season, Angela sings in Verdi’s Requiem on three continents, with the Boston Philharmonic, Brazil’s Fundação Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, and Bilbao’s ABAO. She presents a solo recital at the Palacio de la Opera in A Coruña, Spain.

Explore Angela’s complete 2015-16 schedule here.

Angela Meade Steps in as Leonora in Palacio de la Opera’s Il Trovatore

This September 3 and 5, Angela Meade brings her acclaimed portrayal of Verdi’s heroine Leonora to A Coruña, Spain, starring in Il Trovatore at the Palacio de la Opera. Mario Ponteggi directs the new production which featuress a cast including Gregory Kunde as Manrico, Juan Jesús Rodríguez as Conte di Luna, and Marianne Cornetti as Azucena. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the drama, accompanied by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia.

Tickets and more information can be found here.

Angela hailed for bringing her “glisteningly light and agile” sound to BBC Proms

Angela’s BBC Proms debut at London’s Royal Albert Hall was received with acclaim from audiences and critics alike. In its review of her performance of Verdi’s Requiem The Guardian stated, “Of the four soloists, exceptional were the succulent-toned Angela Meade and her grandly rhetorical mezzo colleague, Karen Cargill: their immaculately co-ordinated duetting provided some of the highlights of the interpretation as a whole,” while Music OMH said, “soprano Angela Meade also impressed…her voice proved to be measured and versatile, with a brilliantly demonstrated ability to tackle the opposites of terror and sweetness in the Libera me, and to make the perfect partnership with Karen Cargill’s voice in the Recordare and Agnus Dei.”

Listen to the performance that features Angela’s “shimmering vibrato” (Bachtrack) on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms debut this Sunday

This Sunday, Angela brings her highly acclaimed performance of Verdi’s Requiem to London’s 2015 BBC Proms.  In its review of her performance of Verdi’s iconic work with the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert, the New York Times exclaimed that “Ms. Meade’s voice soared commandingly over the orchestra and chorus – an operatic feat, undoubtedly, and a magnificent one.”  Led by Donald Runnicles, Angela joins mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill, tenor Yosep Kang, bass Raymond Acetro, the Concert Association of the Chorus of Deutsche Oper Berlin and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on stage at Royal Albert Hall.

For those who are unable to make it to London, they can tune in to BBC Radio 3 for a live broadcast of the Proms at 8pm GMT. The Prom will also be repeated on Wednesday, August 5 at 2pm GMT.

Angela’s summer season filled with Rossini, Donizetti, and BBC Proms debut

After a busy spring season, Angela kicks off her summer next week in Spain performing the title role in Rossini’s Ermione at Palacio de la Opera (June 6). She will then step into the studio in London to record the role of Hélène d’Egmont in Donizetti’s rarely performed Le duc d’Albe. The recording will be distributed by Opera Rara, and will feature The Hallé Orchestra under the direction of Sir Mark Elder. In late June, Angela will return to the United States for a concert performance of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at the Astoria Music Festival (June 28) before traveling back across the pond to make her debut with the BBC Proms in Verdi’s Requiem (August 2). Her summer season will end with a concert of arias with Cameron Schutza, MaryAnn McCormick and Luis Ledesma titled “Grand and Glorious” at Portland SummerFest. For more information on all of Angela’s performances this summer – and through the fall – check out her schedule.

2015 starts in style for Angela Meade

Angela launches 2015 with three high profile events this month. Next week, Angela makes her eagerly awaited debut with the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert in three performances of Verdi’s Requiem at Avery Fisher Hall. Later in the month audiences have the opportunity to hear her star turn in the Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala concert on a Live From Lincoln Center broadcast, “Richard Tucker Opera Gala: A New Century,” which was taped last October and airs on PBS on Friday, January 23. This weekend Angela is performing in a more intimate New York setting at the Morgan Library where she shares the bill of a George London Recital at the Morgan Library with baritone Nicholas Pallesen, a fellow winner of the George London prize.

This Week, Angela Meade headlines William Tell North American tour with Turin’s Teatro Regio

Tonight, following her triumphant European appearances in the same production, Angela launches a North American tour with Italy’s Teatro Regio di Torino and Gianandrea Noseda, headlining concert performances of William Tell in Chicago (Dec 3), Toronto (Dec 5), New York City’s Carnegie Hall (Sun, Dec 7), and Ann Arbor (Dec 9). The New York performance marks the soprano’s second engagement at the Stern Auditorium this season, and she continues to dominate the Manhattan cultural scene in the New Year. For her eagerly awaited New York Philharmonic debut, she joins the orchestra for three accounts of Verdi’s Requiem with Alan Gilbert at Avery Fisher Hall (Jan 15-17), and she also looks forward to revisiting one of her jaw-dropping 57 vocal competition wins, sharing the stage with fellow George London Award-winner Nicholas Pallesen for a George London Recital at the Morgan Library (Jan 11). As Opera News explained in its November cover story, when Meade became the youngest singer ever selected as the face of the magazine’s annual “Diva” issue, “Easily the most talked-about soprano of her generation, … Meade inhabits her stardom. … [She is] not just an extravagantly accomplished singer but a diva now thoroughly in her element.”

Angela’s Lucrezia Borgia from Caramoor airs nationally November 8

Angela’s performance in the title role of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia from last summer’s Caramoor Festival will air on WQXR this Saturday at 12pm ET, and nationally through the WFMT Radio Network’s syndicated opera series. The New York Times hailed Angela’s “extraordinarily powerful and multifaceted soprano” and Opera News noted, “Angela Meade took the title role, giving as accomplished a performance as I’ve ever seen from her – which is saying quite a lot…This was the true work of a prima donna.” Click here for more info.

Angela graces the cover of November’s Opera News

Angela is on the cover of the 13th annual “Diva” issue of Opera News – on sale now – and is the youngest singer ever selected for a “Diva” issue cover. Each year, this special edition of the magazine documents the most noteworthy prima donnas; great singers who have topped the list in previous seasons include Maria Callas, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Anna Netrebko. In the November issue, the honors are Angela’s, and a feature-length cover story by Fred Cohn profiles her burgeoning career. As she explains: “I am so honored to be featured on the cover of Opera News’s iconic ‘Diva’ issue. I’ve been an avid reader of the magazine since I started singing in college and it’s a huge honor to be on the same cover as the legendary singers I look up to!” Click here to read the Opera News cover story on Angela.

Angela Meade Takes Manhattan, with NY Phil Debut, Carnegie Concerts, Met Ernani, George London Recital, and Richard Tucker Gala in 2014-15

Angela Meade – the face of Opera News’s forthcoming annual “Diva” issue – dominates the New York cultural scene this season. In concert, the American soprano makes her New York Philharmonic debut under Alan Gilbert’s direction in Verdi’s Requiem (Jan 15-17), and gives two performances at Carnegie Hall, first joining the Philadelphia Orchestra for Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony (Oct 31), and then starring in Rossini’s William Tell with Italy’s Teatro Regio di Torino led by Gianandrea Noseda (Dec 7), in the penultimate stop on their North American tour. With James Levine on the podium, she sings opposite Plácido Domingo in Verdi’s Ernani at the Metropolitan Opera, reprising Elvira, the role in which she made her career-launching professional debut on the same stage (March 20-April 11). The laureate of no fewer than 57 vocal competitions, she also revisits three of her most prestigious wins this season, partnering fellow George London Award-winner Nicholas Pallesen for a George London Recital at the Morgan Library (Jan 11); joining fellow Tucker Award-winners as well as Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, and other operatic luminaries for the annual Richard Tucker Gala at Avery Fisher Hall (Oct 12); and hosting the Met’s National Council Auditions Grand Finals Concert (Mar 22), in which her own triumph was chronicled in the PBS-TV documentary The Audition. Beyond Manhattan, Meade is scheduled to sing in Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony under the leadership of Donald Runnicles with the Atlanta Symphony (Oct 2-5), and, celebrating the eminent Scottish conductor’s 60th birthday, on a tour of his homeland with the BBC Scottish Symphony (Nov 13-16). Finally, following her summer success in the title role of Lucrezia Borgia at the Caramoor Festival, she looks forward to singing another Donizetti opera: the role of Hélène d’Egmont in a recording of Le duc d’Albe for the Opera Rara label (June).

Click here for a full list of upcoming performances.