Challenging conventions and pushing boundaries, Emily D’Angelo is a musical force to be reckoned with. With her striking stage presence, vocal authority, and expressive artistry, the singer has taken the opera and concert world by storm in recent years. For Montreal’s French-language newspaper Le Devoir, and for a growing army of fans, she is quite simply “a phenomenon.”
Although she is known for her wide-ranging repertoire and for championing contemporary composers, D’Angelo has a special relationship with the music of Mozart. Her innate feeling for his roles was clear from the moment of her stage debut as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi in 2016, and has subsequently deepened with strikingly successful debut performances at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Emily D’Angelo was born in Toronto in 1994 to a musical family. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Music at the University of Toronto, after which she joined the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio. In the summers of 2014 and 2015 D’Angelo completed a Fellowship at the Ravinia Steans Institute, where she honed her interpretation of, and dedication to, recital and concert repertoire. She became a member of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Development Program in 2017, and made her debut on the Met stage in 2018. That same year, she made her decisive international breakthrough when she became the first contestant to win all four top prizes at the Operalia competition in the event’s 26-year history.
Beyond the opera stage, her credits include engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the world premiere of a song cycle by Ana Sokolović and performances of new music by, among others, Unsuk Chin and Matthew Aucoin. D’Angelo signed an exclusive agreement with Deutsche Grammophon in May 2021 and her debut album, enargeia, was released later that year.
