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.
Most recently, 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 recently 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.
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.
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. Upcoming engagements include a string of appearances as
Almaviva at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, at 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 Rodelindaat
the Teatro Real Madrid. He will appear in 2017-18 with the Bayerische
Staatsoper in Munich, and the Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris.
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. In the summer of 2014, Mr. Angelini sings Gennaro in Lucrezia
Borgia at Bel Canto at Caramoor. In 2015 he performed Rossini's Stabat
Mater at Alice Tully Hall in NYC and jumped in to perform the work for the
opening of the Rheingau Musik Festival.
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.
February 2022