Angela Meade’s summer includes star turns across the U.S., plus the Edinburgh Festival in Graham Vick’s William Tell

Angela Meade – fresh from Metropolitan Opera triumphs as Bellini’s Norma and as Alice Ford in Falstaff – has a busy summer ahead. The soprano will perform at festivals across the U.S. from June through August. She launches her summer season as soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Baltimore Symphony under Marin Alsop (June 5-8) before taking on the title role of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia in her return to the Caramoor International Music Festival (July 12, 18). The Washington State native also headlines two festivals in Oregon: she sings Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata for the gala opening concert of the Astoria Music Festival (June 14), and the title role of Bellini’s Norma for Portland’s SummerFest (Aug 8). Last month Meade appeared for the first time in Italy, with her role debut as Mathilde in a new production of Rossini’s Guglielmo Tell by esteemed director Graham Vick at the Teatro Regio di Torino. Hailed by the Financial Times as “a major achievement” and “musically … a treat”, Torino’s Guglielmo Tell travels with Meade and the rest of the cast for concert performances under conductor Gianandrea Noseda at Italy’s Stresa Music Festival (Aug 22) and the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland (Aug 25).  A U.S. tour will follow in December with stops in Chicago, Toronto, Ann Arbor and New York’s Carnegie Hall.