Emily D’Angelo ** Voice 2018

Emily D’Angelo **
Photo : Daniel Denino
Canada - Italy
1994-09-23

VOICE 2018 Edition – Aria Division

Second Prize, Radio-Canada People’s Choice & Best Canadian Artist Awards

Voice 2018    

 

Mezzo-soprano

Biography 2018: A winner of the 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition Finals, Emily D’Angelo was also First Prize winner of the 2017 Gerda Lissner International Voice Competition, the 2017 Innsbruck International Cesti Competition for Baroque Opera, the 2017 Canadian Opera Company Quilico Awards Competition, the 2016 American National Opera Association Competition, and the 2015 Canadian Opera Company Centre Stage Competition. She was also Second Prize winner at the 2017 Neue Stimmen Competition and at the 2015 OREL Foundation Ziering-Conlon Competition, and was awarded the German Lieder Prize at the 2016 Art Song Preservation Society Competition.

D’Angelo received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio. She joined the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program for their 2017-2018 season.

Emily D’Angelo is generously sponsored by Jean Claude Baudinet.

 

Emily D’Angelo website

 

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VOICE 2018 PROGRAM

ARIA

FIRST ROUND

Gioachino Rossini
Contro un cor (Il barbiere di Siviglia)

Jules Massenet
Coeur sans amour (Cendrillon)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Parto, ma tu ben mio (La clemenza di Tito)


SEMIFINAL

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Smanie implacabili (Cosi fan tutte)

George Frideric Handel
Dopo notte, atra e funesta (Ariodante)

Alban Berg
Sieben frühe Lieder
     Die Nachtigall
     Traumgekrönt
     Sommertage

 

FINAL

Gioachino Rossini
Una voce poco fa (Il barbiere di Siviglia)

Samuel Barber
Must the winter come so soon? (Vanessa)

Jules Massenet
Coeur sans amour (Cendrillon)

Richard Strauss
Sein wir wieder gut … Musik ist eine heilige Kunst (Ariadne auf Naxos)

Esther Gonthier, piano Canada

Esther Gonthier, piano

Esther Gonthier is much in demand in the world of vocal music. She regularly works for the Opéra de Montréal, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Opéra de Québec and the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz, among others. She has assisted such renowned conductors as Jean-Claude Casadesus, Franz- Paul Decker, Rafaël Frühbeck de Burgos, Eliahu Inbal, Michel Plasson, Charles Dutoit, and Kent Nagano. She has over 80 operas in her repertoire and often works with young singers at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, the Université de Montréal, and the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal.