Angela Meade
Angela Meade (born 1977) is an award winning American operatic soprano.
Life and career
Born in Centralia, Washington, Meade started her education at Centralia Community College before going on to earn a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice from Pacific Lutheran University and a Master of Music degree in Voice from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California before pursuing further studies at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. She 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).[1] 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.[2]
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 & 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 of her career include Elena in Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani with the Wiener Staatsoper (2012), Fidelia in Puccini's Edgar with Oper 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 legendary 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 in the 2016/17 season she will portray Donna Anna at the Metropolitan Opera. She has been a part of the Caramoor International Music Festival in the title roles of Rossini's Semiramide (2009), Bellini's Norma (2010), Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes (2013), Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia (2014) and performances of the title role in Mercadante's Virginia at the Wexford Festival Opera in 2010.
Discography
Complete Opera Video Recordings
| Recording Year | Opera | Cast | Conductor,
Opera House and Orchestra |
Release Year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Verdi | Angela Meade
Franco Vassallo Paolo Fanale Carlo Bosi Keith Jameson |
James Levine
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus |
2015 | Decca |
Complete Opera Audio Recordings
| Recording Year | Opera | Cast | Conductor
Opera House and Orchestra |
Release Year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Donizetti | Angela Meade
Michael Spyres Gianluca Buratto David Stout Trystan Llyr Griffiths Robin Tritschler Dawid Kimberg |
Sir Mark Elder
Hallé Orchestra and Opera Rara Chorus |
2016 | Opera Rara |
Special DVD Projects
| Recording Year | Project | Cast | Conductor
Opera House and Orchestra Director |
Release Year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Documentary | Angela Meade
Amber Wagner Alek Shrader Ryan Smith Dísella Làrusdóttir Ryan McKinny Nicholas Pallesen Matthew Plenk |
Marco Armiliato
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus |
2009 | Decca |
Repertory
| Role | Opera | Composer | Location | Conductor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norma | Norma | Bellini | Caramoor Music Festival
Washington National Opera Metropolitan Opera Los Angeles Opera Teatro Real Madrid (2016/17) |
Will Crutchfield
Roberto Abbado |
| Beatrice di Tenda | Beatrice di Tenda | Bellini | Collegiate Chorale | James Bagwell |
| Anna Bolena | Anna Bolena | Donizetti | Academy of Vocal Arts
Metropolitan Opera Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla (2016/17) |
Christofer Macatsoris
Marco Armiliato Maurizio Benini |
| 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 |
| Virginia | Virginia | Mercadante | Wexford Festival | Carlos Izcaray |
| Donna Anna | Don Giovanni | Mozart | Los Angeles Opera
Cincinnati Opera Baltimore Symphony Metropolitan Opera (2016/17) |
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 | 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 | James Levine |
| Giselda | I Lombardi | Verdi | Opera Orchestra of New York | Eve Queler |
| Lucrezia Contarini | I Due Foscari | Verdi | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Teatro Real Madrid |
Roberto Rizzi Brignoli
Pablo Heras-Casado |
| Desdemona | Otello | Verdi | Portland SummerFest | Keith Clark |
| Lina | Stiffelio | Verdi | ABAO Bilbao (2016/17) | 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) |
Keith Clark
Keith Clark Roberto Rizzi Brignoli Daniele Callegari Marco Armiliato Roberto Rizzi Brignoli Keith Clark Keith Clark |
| 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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References
- ↑ Joe Dziemianowicz (February 2, 2012). "Beverly Sills award winner Angela Meade returns to sing 'Ernani' at the Metropolitan Opera". New York Daily News.
- ↑ "Soprano Angela Meade Receives Seventh Annual Beverly Sills Artist Award from The Metropolitan Opera". Opera News. 30 January 2012.