Emily D’Angelo

Emily D’Angelo’s meteoric rise has firmly established her status as one of the most exciting and critically acclaimed artists of her generation. Beginning with her professional operatic debut at age 21 as Cherubino in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, the mezzo-soprano is constantly in demand at the world’s top opera companies. Following the release of her second album freezing for Deutsche Grammophon, she was named the 2025 recipient of Opus Klassik’s “Female Singer of the Year” award, one of classical music’s most coveted honors.

In the 2025-26 season, Emily D’Angelo returns to London’s Royal Opera House in the title role of George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante in a new production by Jetske Mijnssen and conducted by Stefano Montanari. Appearing again at the Vienna State Opera, she returns to the role of Sesto in Mozart’s The Clemency of Titus led by Pablo Heras-Casado and newly staged by director Jan Lauwers.

On the cusp of a robust concert season, highlights include her highly anticipated debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra in Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano, and with the Philadelphia Orchestra as soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

In recent seasons, Emily D’Angelo has made a host of widely acclaimed debuts across the United States and Europe, cementing her status as one of the opera world’s most in-demand artists. D’Angelo opened the 2024-25 season at the Metropolitan Opera starring as Jess, the leading role in two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s opera Grounded. 

D’Angelo is a keen recitalist and regularly performs in storied concert halls, collaborating with the world’s most acclaimed orchestras, ensembles, and conductors. She is a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive recording artist. Her debut album enargeia was named one of the 50 best albums of 2021 by NPR, the best Canadian classical album of 2021 by the CBC, was featured on NPR’s 100 best songs of 2021, and received JUNO and Gramophone awards in 2022. 

D’Angelo has triumphed in numerous international competitions, winning first prize in the Metropolitan Opera Competition, the Canadian Opera Company Competition, the George London Foundation Competition, the Gerda Lissner Competition, Innsbruck’s Cesti Competition, and the Operalia Competition, where a historic win included First Prize, the Zarzuela Prize, the Birgit Nilsson Prize, and Audience Prize. She has also received prizes from the Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition, the Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM). The mezzo-soprano is the first and only vocalist to be honored with the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. D’Angelo was a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, one of Canada’s “Top 30 Under 30” Classical Musicians, and WQXR NYC Public Radio’s “40 Under 40” singers to watch. Her professional operatic debut as Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, broadcast nationwide on RAI, earned her the 2016 Monini Prize.

Toronto-born D’Angelo is a graduate of the University of Toronto, the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, and the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute.