Michele Angelini is a
graduate of The Ohio State University with degrees in both Vocal and
Bassoon Performance.
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.
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; La
Cenerentola in Toulouse; Falstaff in Lisbon and Die
Entführung aus dem Serail in Napa Valley.
Metropolitan Opera engagements have included Rossini's La
Fille du Régiment, Armida, La donna del lago, Il barbiere di
Siviglia, Guillaume Tell and Stabat Mater.
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.
Plans
include: Abramo e Isacco (Myslivecek) with Collegium 1704 on
tour.
August
2024