Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the world’s special young singers,” 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 Le nozze di Figaro at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, the “wondrous and powerful” (New York Times) singer is constantly in demand on the world’s most important stages. A Deutsche Grammophon exclusive recording artist, she has received JUNO and Gramophone Awards for her solo records, and was named the 2025 recipient of Opus Klassik’s “Singer of the Year” award, one of classical music’s most coveted honours.
In the 2025/26 season, Emily D’Angelo returns to London’s Royal Opera House in the title role of 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 La clemenza di Tito with Pablo Heras-Casado and newly staged by director Jan Lauwers.
This season brings highly anticipated concert debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Sir Antonio Pappano, and with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 “Jeremiah” with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. She returns to Spain for two of Mahler’s magnificent symphonies: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” with the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, and Symphony No. 3 with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada. She is heard with the Oviedo Filarmonía singing Rossini’s cantata Giovanna d’Arco and de Falla’s El amor brujo, and with the Danish Chamber Orchestra and Adam Fischer singing a program of Handel, Monteverdi and Mozart at both the Salzburg Mozartwoche, and the Copenhagen Konservatoriets Koncertsal. At the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden she sings one of her signature roles, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, in concert with the SWR Symphonie-Orchester. Additionally, she continues her long-time collaboration with pianist Sophia Muñoz in recitals at Hanzas Perons Riga, and Ammolite Calgary.
In recent seasons, Emily D’Angelo has made a host of widely acclaimed debuts, cementing her status as one of the opera world’s most in-demand artists. D’Angelo opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024/25 season starring as Jess, the leading role in two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori's opera Grounded. She first created the role of Jess in the world premiere at the Kennedy Center with Washington National Opera in 2023. Following her company debut with the Berlin State Opera as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, she made an auspicious role debut as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier and returned as Idamante in Mozart’s Idomeneo, and sang Cherubino in Vincent Huget’s new production of Le nozze di Figaro conducted by Daniel Barenboim. She debuted with Teatro alla Scala as Dorabella in Così fan tutte, followed by her role debut as Donna Elvira in Robert Carsen’s production of Don Giovanni. At the Vienna State Opera she made a house debut as Dorabella in Così fan tutte, followed by performances as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, and as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. With the Bayerische Staatsoper, she has been heard as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Idamante in Idomeneo, and Juno in Claus Guth’s new staging of Semele. After “a barnstorming role and house debut” as Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, she returned to London’s Royal Opera as as Ruggiero in a new Richard Jones production of Handel’s Alcina. At Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier, she gave her first performances in the title role of Ariodante in Robert Carsen’s new staging, and returned as Sesto in Laurent Pelly’s Giulio Cesare. At the Paris Opera Bastille she was seen as Siebel in Gounod’s Faust, in tandem with appearances as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia for her company debut. A frequent guest at the Metropolitan Opera, she has been heard as Cherubino and in a role debut as Prince Charming in an English-language presentation of Massenet’s Cendrillon, broadcast to audiences worldwide in Live in HD. She sang Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea for her debut with the Zürich Opera, and made both her role and company debut as Angelina in La cenerentola with Semperoper Dresden.
Emily D’Angelo regularly collaborates with the world’s most acclaimed orchestras, ensembles, and conductors. She recently made her debut at the BBC Proms in London’s Royal Albert Hall, singing Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” with the Hallé Orchestra, and joined Yannick Nézet-Seguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe for two concerts of Mozart’s Requiem and Great Mass in C minor K. 427 at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. She starred in concert with tenor Freddie De Tommaso and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, and performed Haydn’s cantata Arianna a Naxos with the Tonkünstler Orchester at Grafenegg. She was featured at the annual Advent concert of the ZDF, German national television, with Staatskapelle Dresden and Riccardo Minasi, and performed Handel’s Messiah with Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal. As the 2023-24 Spotlight Artist at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, she presented Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder and the orchestral suite of her debut album enargeia. She made her debut at the Salzburger Festspiel with Camerata Salzburg and Manfred Honeck singing Mozart’s Requiem, which she also performed at Salzburg Mozartwoche on the anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death. She debuted Alma Mahler’s Sieben Lieder with the Orquesta Nacional de España and conductor Anja Bihlmaier at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, and thrice was heard in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9: at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra for Ukraine and Christoph Eschenbach; with the Handel and Haydn Society and Raphaël Pichon; and with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin with Vladimir Jurowski. With the English Concert and Harry Bicket, D’Angelo made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2023 at Stern Auditorium in the title role of Handel’s Serse, with further concert performances in London, Gateshead, and Pamplona.
Emily D’Angelo has performed distinct recital programs in venues including Carnegie Hall, New York’s Park Avenue Armory, The Edinburgh International Festival, Konserthuset Stockholm, Filarmónica de Bilbao, Madrid Teatros del Canal, the Ravinia Festival, Toronto Koerner Hall, Ottawa ChamberFest, L'Auditori de Barcelona, Viva Musica Bratislava, Festival Peralada, and Prague Novoměstská Radnice, New York Morgan Library, Los Angeles SongFest Series, and the Santa Fe Festival of Song. In 2021 she recorded a recital program with pianist Sophia Muñoz at B-Sharp Studio Berlin for the Kennedy Center Vocal Arts DC, which continues to stream online via Deutsche Grammophon’s DG Stage+ platform.
Emily D’Angelo is a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive recording artist. Her debut album enargeia presents music from the 12th and 21st centuries by composers Hildegard von Bingen, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Missy Mazzoli and Sarah Kirkland Snider, and is described by the artist herself as a “a soundworld, bound together by the multisensory ancient concept of enargeia.” It received JUNO and Gramophone awards in 2022, was named one of “50 Best Albums” and “101 Best Songs” of 2021 by NPR, and the best Canadian classical album of 2021 by the CBC. D'Angelo performed songs from enargeia at the 2023 Berlin Fashion Week as a part of her close collaboration and creative partnership with Berlin-based designer and artist Esther Perbandt. In 2024 D’Angelo released her much-anticipated second album freezing produced by Deutsche Grammophon; it received a 2025 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year (solo artist), and was featured on NPR's “50 Best Albums” and “124 Best Songs” of 2024. Featuring songs drawn from the folk tradition, art song and beyond, in new and original arrangements for piano, electric guitar and bass, synthesiser, and percussion, freezing includes music from John Dowland to Randy Newman. In 2025 Deutsche Grammophon released Grounded, recorded live in performance at the Metropolitan Opera.
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