Heralded by the Dallas Morning News as an artist who
"displays a
voice of silken loveliness as well as graceful agility," Michele
Angelini
made his European operatic debut at the world famous Rossini Opera
Festival in
Pesaro as Count Libenskof in Il viaggio a Reims and has been thrilling
audiences on leading international stages in the operatic repertoire
of
Bellini, Donizetti, Gluck, Mozart, and Rossini.
Mr. Angelini has made a series of critically acclaimed
appearances at
the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London.
After his outstanding debut as Conte Almaviva
in Il barbiere di Siviglia, he returned for performances as Don
Ottavio in Don
Giovanni and appeared in the new production of Gluck's rarely
performed 1774
French version of Orphée et Eurydice with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the
Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.
He then accompanied Maestro Gardiner and his ensembles to
perform the
role in concert at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg and the Opéra Royal at
the Château
de Versailles. He also
made his Berlin
Staatsoper debut as Almaviva, after that he starred in Il Viaggio a
Reims in
Moscow and Koln; La Cenerentola in Rome; Anna Bolena in Vilnius;
Elisabetta
Regina d'Inghilterra in Wildbad; Marin Faliero and Medea in Corinto at
the
Donizetti Festival in Bergamo; Il Turco in Italia in Glyndebourne and
Munich;
La Cenerentola in Madrid. Other recent engagements include: Orfeo ed
Euridice
in Florence under Gatti; Rossini’s Armida in Wildbad; Il Barbiere di
Siviglia
in Oslo and Miami; Anna Bolena and La Juive in Vilnius.
Highlights of past seasons include Il viaggio a Reims at
Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino, L'italiana in Algeri at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna,
Asociación
Bilbaína de Amigos de la Ópera (ABAO), and the Atlanta Opera, Così fan
tutte at
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the world premiere of Benoit Mernier's
Frühlings
Erwachen at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Don Giovanni at the Royal
Swedish
Opera and Savonlinna Opera Festival, La cenerentola at Fort Worth
Opera and Opera
Colorado, Il turco in Italia at Düsseldorf’s Deutsche Oper am Rhein,
La
sonnambula at Florida Grand Opera, Il barbiere di Siviglia with the
Royal
Swedish Opera and New Orleans Opera, the title role in Mozart’s Il
sogno di
Scipione with Gotham Chamber Opera, and Chabrier's Le Roi Malgré Lui
at Bard
Summerscape. Worth mentioning a string of appearances as Almaviva at
the Teatro
de la Maestranza in Seville, at Pittsburgh Opera, a return to ABAO, La
gazza
ladra at the Glimmerglass Summer Festival, Argirio in Tancredi with
Opera
Philadelphia and Grimoaldo in Handel's Rodelinda at the Teatro Real
Madrid; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Berlina and La
Cenerentola in Toulouse.
Metropolitan Opera engagements have included La Fille du
Régiment and
Rossini's Armida, La donna del lago,Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini's
Stabat
Mater; his official debut is scheduled in October 2016 as Ruodi, the
fisherman
in the new production of Rossini's Guillaume Tell.
Plans include: Die
Entführung aus dem Serail in Napa Valley and Abramo e Isacco
(Myslivecek) with Collegium 1704 on tour.
Concert work has featured the tenor in Rossini's Otello with
Opera
Orchestra of New York and Moïse et Pharaon with The Collegiate Chorale
both at
Carnegie Hall, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with the New York
Choral
Society at Lincoln Center, and Handel’s Messiah with the National
Symphony
Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and at Oslo’s Den Norske Opera.
Awards include First Prize in the 2010 Savonlinna Opera
Festival
International Singing Competition, First Prize in the 2012 Gerda
Lissner
Foundation Singing Competition, TopPrize winner of the 2013 Opera
Index Award,,
and an Encouragement Award in the memory of Charles Anthony from the
George
London Foundation.
He is a graduate of The Ohio State University with degrees
in both Vocal
and Bassoon Performance.
May 2024