Angela Meade (born 1977) [1] is an American operatic soprano.
Angela Meade (born 1977) [1] is an American operatic soprano.
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Meade has won more than 50 vocal competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2007) and the Grand Prize at the Montreal International Musical Competition (2009). [2] In 2011 she was awarded the prestigious Richard Tucker Award and in 2012 she was the recipient of the Metropolitan Opera's Beverly Sills Artist Award. [3]
Meade made her professional operatic debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Elvira in Verdi's Ernani in March 2008 stepping in for an ill colleague, a role she reprised with the company in February 2012, which was broadcast as part of the Met's Live in HD series and in March/April 2015. At the Met she has also performed the roles of the Countess in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (2009) and the title roles in both Donizetti's Anna Bolena (2011) and Bellini's Norma (2013) as well as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore (2013 and 2016), and Alice in Verdi's Falstaff (2013/14), conducted by James Levine, which was broadcast as part of the Met's Live in HD series and was released on DVD by Decca. Other highlights include Elena in Verdi's I vespri siciliani with the Vienna State Opera (2012), Fidelia in Puccini's Edgar with Opera Frankfurt (2014), Lucrezia Contarini in Verdi's I due Foscari with Deutsche Oper Berlin (2012) and for her debut with Teatro Real Madrid (2016), Giselda in Verdi's I Lombardi with the Opera Orchestra of New York (2013), Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore with Palacio de la Ópera A Coruña (2015) where she also performed the title role in Rossini's Ermione (2015) under the baton of Rossini conductor Alberto Zedda. She has sung Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni with Los Angeles Opera in 2012 under the baton of Plácido Domingo, Cincinnati Opera in 2013 and the Metropolitan Opera in 2017. She has been a part of the Caramoor International Music Festival in the title roles of Rossini's Semiramide (2009), Bellini's Norma (2010), Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia (2014) as well as Hélène in Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes (2013) and as Imogene in Bellini's Il pirata (2017) and performances of the title role in Mercadante's Virginia at the Wexford Festival Opera in 2010
For Meade's 2019-2020 season, she made a house and role debut as Aïda with Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; a role debut as Elisabetta in Don Carlo in a return to the Palacio de la Opera in Coruña, Spain; a house debut with Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy in the title role of Rossini's notoriously difficult Ermione; a debut with the Ravinia Festival in Mahler's 8th Symphony under the baton of Marin Alsop; and a debut with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy for both a recital in collaboration with pianist, Giulio Zappa and as part of their gala concert under the baton of Carlo Rizzi. In addition, she will return to ABAO Bilbao for the title role of Donizetti's Anna Bolena; and a return to Portland SummerFest for a concert of Verdi's greatest hits.
Meade's 2018-2019 season included a return to the Metropolitan Opera for her role debut as Margherita in Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele; her debut with Seattle opera as Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore; a return to Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville for Verdi's Il Trovatore and a return to Dallas Opera as Alice in Verdi's Falstaff. On the concert stage she returned to Palacio de la Opera in Coruña Spain for a special evening of arias; presented recitals both in Vancouver's Singer Behind the Song Recital Series and for the McCammon Foundation at Fort Worth Opera; as well as performances of Verdi's Requiem both with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitan in honor of Jacqueline Desmarais and for her debut with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin under the baton of Michele Mariotti.
Meade's 2017-2018 season included a return to Washington National Opera for her role debut in Handel's Alcina ; back to back contracts at the Metropolitan Opera for the title roles of Bellini's Norma and Rossini's Semiramide (broadcast live in HD); a return to Teatro Regio di Torino for Giselda in Verdi's I Lombardi ; a return to Frankfurt Opera in her role debut as Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur as well as recitals with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and Performance Santa Fe, a concert with her husband and tenor, John Matthew Myers with the Allentown Symphony and Mahler's 8th Symphony with Yannick Nézet-Séguin for her debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic.
| Role | Opera | Composer | Location | Conductor |
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| Norma | Norma | Bellini | Caramoor Music Festival Metropolitan Opera (2011–12) Metropolitan Opera (2017–18) | Will Crutchfield |
| Beatrice di Tenda | Beatrice di Tenda | Bellini | Collegiate Chorale | James Bagwell |
| Imogene | Il Pirata | Bellini | Caramoor Music Festival | Will Crutchfield |
| Margherita | Mefistofele | Boito | Metropolitan Opera | Carlo Rizzi/ Joseph Colaneri |
| Adriana Lecouvreur | Adriana Lecouvreur | Cilea | Oper Frankfurt | Steven Sloane |
| Anna Bolena | Anna Bolena | Donizetti | Academy of Vocal Arts Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla ABAO Bilbao (2019–20) | Christofer Macatsoris Marco Armiliato Giampaolo Bisanti |
| Maria Stuarda | Maria Stuarda | Donizetti | Astoria Music Festival | Keith Clark |
| Elisabetta | Roberto Devereux | Donizetti | Dallas Opera | Graeme Jenkins |
| Lucrezia Borgia | Lucrezia Borgia | Donizetti | Caramoor Music Festival | Will Crutchfield |
| Hélène d'Egmont | Le Duc d'Albe | Donizetti | Opera Rara (recording) | Sir Mark Elder |
| Lucia di Lammermoor | Lucia di Lammermoor | Donizetti | Academy of Vocal Arts | Christofer Macatsoris |
| Parisina d'Este | Parisina d'Este | Donizetti | Opera Orchestra of New York | Eve Queler |
| Alcina | Alcina | Handel | Washington National Opera | Jane Glover |
| Virginia | Virginia | Mercadante | Wexford Festival | Carlos Izcaray |
| Donna Anna | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Los Angeles Opera | Plácido Domingo Roberto Minczuk |
| Fiordiligi | Così fan tutte | Mozart | Academy of Vocal Arts | Christofer Macatsoris |
| Konstanze | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Mozart | San Francisco Opera * | Cornelius Meister |
| Contessa Almaviva | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart | Metropolitan Opera | Fabio Luisi |
| Fidelia | Edgar | Puccini | Oper Frankfurt | Marc Soustrot |
| Ermione | Ermione | Rossini | Palacio de la Ópera A Coruña Russian National Symphony Opéra de Lyon Theatre des Champs-Élysées Teatro di San Carlo (2019–20) | Alberto Zedda |
| Armida | Armida | Rossini | Metropolitan Opera * | Riccardo Frizza |
| Mathilde | Guillaume Tell | Rossini | Teatro Regio di Torino Edinburgh Festival Stresa Festival Torino Tour of Chicago (Harris Theater), Ann Arbor MI, Toronto (Roy Thomson Hall) and Carnegie Hall | Gianandrea Noseda |
| Semiramide | Semiramide | Rossini | Caramoor Music Festival | Will Crutchfield |
| Elvira | Ernani | Verdi | Metropolitan Opera | Roberto Abbado (2008) Marco Armiliato (2012) James Levine (2015) |
| Alice | Falstaff | Verdi | Metropolitan Opera Dallas Opera | James Levine Riccardo Frizza |
| Giselda | I Lombardi | Verdi | Opera Orchestra of New York Teatro Regio di Torino | Eve Queler Michele Mariotti |
| Lucrezia Contarini | I Due Foscari | Verdi | Deutsche Oper Berlin Teatro Real Madrid | Roberto Rizzi Brignoli Pablo Heras-Casado |
| Aïda | Aïda | Verdi | Gran Teatre del Liceu (2019–20) | Gustavo Gimeno |
| Desdemona | Otello | Verdi | Portland SummerFest | Keith Clark |
| Lina | Stiffelio | Verdi | ABAO Bilbao | Francesco Ivan Ciampa |
| Leonora | Il Trovatore | Verdi | Portland SummerFest (2010) Astoria Music Festival (2011) Peralada Music Festival Metropolitan Opera (2013) Metropolitan Opera (2016) Palacio de la Ópera A Coruña Deutsche Oper Berlin Astoria Music Festival (2016) Portland SummerFest (2016) Teatro de la Maestranza Seville | Keith Clark Keith Clark Roberto Rizzi Brignoli Daniele Callegari Marco Armiliato Roberto Rizzi Brignoli Keith Clark Keith Clark Carlo Montanaro Pedro Halffter |
| Violetta | La Traviata | Verdi | Astoria Music Festival | Keith Clark |
| Elena | I Vespri Siciliani | Verdi | Wiener Staatsoper | Gianandrea Noseda |
| Hélène | Les Vêpres Siciliennes | Verdi | Caramoor Music Festival | Will Crutchfield |
| Agathe | Der Freischütz | Weber | Academy of Vocal Arts | Christofer Macatsoris |
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