American tenor Michele Angelini graduated in voice and bassoon from The Ohio State University. A winner of prestigious international awards, he made his European debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and has performed on many of the world’s leading stages, including the Royal Opera House, Teatro Real, Berlin Staatsoper, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Praised as an artist who "displays a voice of silken loveliness as well as graceful agility" (Dallas Morning News), he has taken on major roles in the bel canto repertoire of Rossini, Mozart, Gluck, Donizetti, and Bellini. His notable successes include Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Don Giovanni, Orphée et Eurydice with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Rodelinda, Tancredi, and Il viaggio a Reims. Also active on the concert stage, he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and on tour with Collegium 1704.