Emily was featured on the New York Times list of 2024 Breakout Stars for her performance of Jeanine Tesori's Grounded at the Met. Find the whole list here.
"On opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s season, Emily D’Angelo, the star of the show, turned 30 years old — a fitting and celebratory culmination of the mezzo soprano’s remarkable rise in the classical world.
The opera, “Grounded” — commissioned by the Met and based on librettist George Brant — was adapted by the Tony-winning composer Jeanine Tesori (“Fun Home,” “Kimberly Akimbo”), who wrote the score with D’Angelo’s voice in mind.
“It’s a huge honor and also a huge responsibility,” D’Angelo told Vogue in the lead-up to the night. D’Angelo starred as Jess, a fighter pilot turned dissociated drone operator during the Iraq War, her “dusky, penetrating tone the vocal embodiment of an anxiously furrowed brow,” our classical music critic wrote."
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