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 in Covent Garden, London. Following his exceptional
debut as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, he returned to
perform as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and appeared in the new
production of Gluck’s French version of Orphée et Eurydice, rarely
performed since 1774, alongside Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi
Choir, and the English Baroque Soloists. He subsequently joined Maestro
Gardiner and his ensembles in concert performances of the role at the
Laeiszhalle in Hamburg and at the Opéra Royal of the Château de
Versailles.
He also made his debut at the Berlin Staatsoper as Almaviva, and went on
to perform in Il viaggio a Reims in Moscow and Cologne; La
Cenerentola in Rome and Madrid; 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.
Highlights of recent seasons include Orfeo ed Euridice in
Florence with Gatti; Rossini’s Armida in Wildbad; Il barbiere
di Siviglia in Oslo, Miami and with the Royal Swedish Opera and New
Orleans Opera; Anna Bolena and La Juive in Vilnius; Il
viaggio a Reims at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; L’italiana in
Algeri at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, at the Asociación Bilbaína
de Amigos de la Ópera (ABAO), and at the Atlanta Opera; Così fan tutte
at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; the world premiere of Benoît Mernier’s Frühlings
Erwachen at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie; Don Giovanni at
the Royal Swedish Opera and the Savonlinna Opera Festival; La
Cenerentola at Fort Worth Opera and Opera Colorado; Il turco in
Italia at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf; La
sonnambula at Florida Grand 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.
Notable engagements include several performances as Almaviva at the
Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Pittsburgh Opera, and 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 in Madrid. He also appeared in Il barbiere di
Siviglia in Berlin, La Cenerentola in Toulouse, Falstaff
in Lisbon, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail in the 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.
The tenor’s concert activity has included performances in Rossini’s Otello
with the Opera Orchestra of New York and in 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;
Handel’s Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra at the
Kennedy Center and at Den Norske Opera in Oslo; and Mysliveček’s Abramo
e Isacco on tour with Collegium 1704.
May 2025