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Soprano Angela Meade Receives Seventh Annual Beverly Sills Artist Award
January 30th, 2012
“In the world of talented young singers, there may be none with greater promise.”— Mike Silverman, Associated Press
American soprano Angela Meade is having a momentous season. In October she caused a sensation in the title role of the Metropolitan Opera’s premiere production of Anna Bolena, delivering what the New Yorker’s Alex Ross called “as pure a display of vocal power as I’ve heard at the Met in the past few years.” A month later she was honored with the prestigious 2011 Richard Tucker Award, and now – still less than four years since her professional debut – the soprano has been named recipient of the seventh annual Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers at the Metropolitan Opera. Muffy Greenough, Beverly Sills’s daughter, presented the award to Meade at a ceremony at the Met this afternoon.
Soprano Angela Meade Sings Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani at the Met Feb 2-25, Returning to Role and Stage of Her 2008 Professional Debut; Appears in “Live in HD” Broadcast to Cinemas Worldwide Feb 25
January 6th, 2012
Soprano Angela Meade, the 2011 Richard Tucker Award winner, returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani, February 2-25, singing the role with which she made an unscheduled “star is born” professional debut at the Met in 2008 substituting for an ill colleague. Opera lovers worldwide can hear the rising young soprano when Ernani is beamed to cinemas worldwide on February 25 as part of the ever-popular “Met – Live in HD” series. Meade’s co-stars include Marcello Giordani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, with Marco Armiliato leading the Met Opera Orchestra. Armiliato first conducted Meade at the Grand Finals Concert of the 2007 Met Opera National Council Auditions, a process chronicled in the documentary film The Audition.
Since that time, and less than four years after her professional debut on the Met’s stage, Angela Meade has become recognized as one of the outstanding vocalists of her generation. Last fall Meade followed Anna Netrebko’s run in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, singing the title role to great acclaim. “Angela Meade made a triumphant appearance in the Met’s Anna Bolena last night, largely fulfilling the high expectations that have surrounded her,” wrote critic Alex Ross. He noted that her singing was “electrifying, as pure a display of vocal power as I’ve heard at the Met in the past few years.”
A Brief Conversation with Angela Meade
January 5th, 2012
In the brief conversation that follows, Meade discusses her upcoming Ernani at the Met.
Q: Ernani is your very own first run at the Met, yes? No covering, no second cast.
AM: Yes! It’s weird and wonderful to go through the process of full rehearsals and coachings with everyone I’m going to be singing with, instead of being put in a costume and shoved onstage, so to speak. That was the case with my Ernani debut in 2008, the Countess in Marriage of Figaro, and Anna Bolena this past fall. It’s really hard to get to the depth of the character when you only do it once onstage. With Bolena, I felt the third performance was the best because I really had a chance to settle in. So it will be great to have the dress rehearsals and six performances for Ernani. What a luxury!
Q: You sing the role of Elvira. What is her character like?
AM: Normally a character in her situation, which is that of a victim and an unhappy lover, would have the personality traits of being weak and pathetic, but she’s not! Elvira knows what she wants, which is Ernani – and she does whatever she can to get him. She’s great to play.
American Soprano Angela Meade, 2011 Richard Tucker Award Winner, Is Now Represented by 21C Media Group
November 28th, 2011
21C Media Group is proud to announce that it now represents American soprano Angela Meade, winner of the 2011 Richard Tucker Award. Less than four years after her professional debut on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, Meade has become recognized as one of the outstanding vocalists of her generation. “Angela Meade made a triumphant appearance in the Met’s Anna Bolena last night, largely fulfilling the high expectations that have surrounded her,” wrote critic Alex Ross last month. He noted that her singing was “electrifying, as pure a display of vocal power as I’ve heard at the Met in the past few years.”
Meade excels in the most demanding 19th-century bel canto repertoire, as well as in the operas of Verdi and Mozart. Among her high-profile engagements this season, she returns to the Met as Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani, February 2-25, culminating in the Live in HD cinema broadcast worldwide on February 25. In March she collaborates with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin for her Canadian debut, singing Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony with Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain; in May she appears for the first time with Deutsche Oper Berlin for a concert performance of Verdi’s I due Foscari.