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About Angel
Angel Blue has emerged in recent seasons as one of the most influential sopranos before the public today. While singing and performing is what Ms. Blue is known for it is her genuine friendly and kind disposition that leaves a lasting impression on those who meet her.
The two-time Grammy Award winner, 2020 Beverly Sills Award recipient, 2022 Richard Tucker Award winner is celebrated worldwide for her honeyed soprano and affecting deliveries of many of the most beloved roles in the operatic repertory, such as the title roles in Aida and Tosca, Violetta in La Traviata, Bess in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Mimì in La bohème, and Liu in Turandot.
Her 25/26 season starts with her performances as Bess in Houston Grand Opera's anticipated new production of Porgy and Bess, celebrating the anniversary of the house's first production of the piece. Angel also returns to the Opéra National de Paris to sing the title role in Tosca, and to the Metropolitan Opera to sing both Mimì in La bohème and Liu in Turandot. On the concert stage, she performs Florent Schmidt’s Psalm 47 with the Houston Symphony, the 'Christmas in Vienna' concert at the Konzerthaus Vienna, and a concert at the Grafenegg Festival. She will also perform recitals with pianist Bryan Wagorn at Reykjavik Arts Festival, Spivey Hall and Four Arts Palm Beach.
Angel kicked off her 24/25 season with the hugely popular Last Night of the Proms, and then returned to her home stage at the Metropolitan Opera, where she spent a major portion of her season. In the fall, she played Margarita Xirgu in Osvaldo Golijov’s first opera, Ainadamar, and in two separate stints over the winter and spring, she made her long-awaited debut as Aida conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Maestro Nézet-Séguin also played a vital role in Ms. Blue’s concert schedule, when she joined the conductor and the Rotterdam Philharmonic on tour in the Netherlands, Germany, and France. Angel also made a company debut as Mimì in the Bayerische Staatsoper’s production of La bohème. She appeared twice at Carnegie Hall, first in recital with the legendary pianist Lang Lang, and again with the Met Opera Orchestra and Maestro Nézet-Séguin. Concert engagements included a solo recital at the Los Angeles Opera and Aida in concert at the Baltimore Symphony conducted by Jonathon Heyward. Angel concluded her 24/25 season performing Violetta at the prestigious Arena di Verona in Italy and a solo recital at the Festival Peralada in Spain.
Engagements from the previous season included Ms. Blue as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera with Maestro Nicola Luisotti, and her debut in the titular role in Aida at the Royal Opera House with Sir Mark Elder. She was seen in concert with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Oskana Lyniv, and in recital with distinguished Canadian-American pianist Dr. Bryan Wagorn at Arizona Opera. Ms. Blue toured with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Nézét-Seguin throughout Europe.
At home, Ms. Blue was lauded for her powerful depiction of Micaëla in Carmen, praised by Observer for her “soaring high notes [which] gleamed thrillingly in her show-stopping aria.” Her Met season concluded spectacularly in a role debut as Magda in La Rondine at the Metropolitan Opera, with Financial Times declaring, “Blue’s luscious soprano is remarkable for its sheer beauty of tone, even from top to bottom…the full-throated passion she brings to the final scene as she abandons her lover is thrilling to hear.”
On September 23, 2019 she opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019/2020 season as Bess in a new production of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. These performances followed her internationally praised French Opera debut and role debut as Floria Tosca at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July of 2019. She has also been recognized for performances in countless other theaters, such as the Vienna State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Theater an der Wien, Teatro alla Scala, Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, Paris Opera, English National Opera, and San Diego Opera.
Puccini’s La Bohéme has played an especially prominent role in the development of Angel Blue’s career. She made her United States operatic debut as Musetta at the Los Angeles Opera in 2007 while a member of the company’s Young Artist Program and subsequently made her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in the same role in 2015. As Mimí, she has earned exceptional international acclaim. Ms. Blue first sang the role at the English National Opera in London in 2014 and has since performed Mimí for her house debuts at the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, the Vienna State Opera, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Canadian Opera Company, the Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, and of course, the Metropolitan Opera.
Equally active on the concert platform, Ms. Blue has appeared in recital and in concert in over forty countries including Hungary, Kazakhstan, India, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, South Korea, China, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. In 2011 Ms. Blue opened the Royal Opera House, in Muscat, Oman. Orchestral engagements have included concert versions of Porgy and Bess at the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle and with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Marin Alsop, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Münchener Philharmoniker under the baton of Zubin Mehta, and Verdi’s Requiem in Sydney, Australia with Oleg Caetani. She has also sung Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Peri in Schumann’s Das Paradis und die Peri with the Accademia Santa Cecilla in Rome, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Cincinnati Symphony under Music Director Louis Langree.
During the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, Ms. Blue dedicated her time to encouraging younger singers to stay motivated to finish their studies and continue in opera, through an online talk show called, "Faithful Friday" where she interviewed people who she found to be inspiring. The online talk show received much acclaim from its viewers, many called the show, "Uplifting, and exactly what is needed right now." Ms. Blue has since shifted her focus back to her family life and her singing engagements. However, she still maintains that encouraging and uplifting younger singers in the opera world is at the forefront of her platform. Angel Blue was raised in California, but makes her home on the east coast of the United States of America.
Angel Blue has emerged in recent seasons as one of the most influential sopranos before the public today. While singing and performing is what Ms. Blue is known for it is her genuine friendly and kind disposition that leaves a lasting impression on those who meet her.
The two-time Grammy Award winner, 2020 Beverly Sills Award recipient, 2022 Richard Tucker Award winner is celebrated worldwide for her honeyed soprano and affecting deliveries of many of the most beloved roles in the operatic repertory, such as the title roles in Aida and Tosca, Violetta in La Traviata, Bess in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Mimì in La bohème, and Liu in Turandot.
Her 25/26 season starts with her performances as Bess in Houston Grand Opera's anticipated new production of Porgy and Bess, celebrating the anniversary of the house's first production of the piece. Angel also returns to the Opéra National de Paris to sing the title role in Tosca, and to the Metropolitan Opera to sing both Mimì in La bohème and Liu in Turandot. On the concert stage, she performs Florent Schmidt’s Psalm 47 with the Houston Symphony, the 'Christmas in Vienna' concert at the Konzerthaus Vienna, and a concert at the Grafenegg Festival. She will also perform recitals with pianist Bryan Wagorn at Reykjavik Arts Festival, Spivey Hall and Four Arts Palm Beach.
Angel kicked off her 24/25 season with the hugely popular Last Night of the Proms, and then returned to her home stage at the Metropolitan Opera, where she spent a major portion of her season. In the fall, she played Margarita Xirgu in Osvaldo Golijov’s first opera, Ainadamar, and in two separate stints over the winter and spring, she made her long-awaited debut as Aida conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Maestro Nézet-Séguin also played a vital role in Ms. Blue’s concert schedule, when she joined the conductor and the Rotterdam Philharmonic on tour in the Netherlands, Germany, and France. Angel also made a company debut as Mimì in the Bayerische Staatsoper’s production of La bohème. She appeared twice at Carnegie Hall, first in recital with the legendary pianist Lang Lang, and again with the Met Opera Orchestra and Maestro Nézet-Séguin. Concert engagements included a solo recital at the Los Angeles Opera and Aida in concert at the Baltimore Symphony conducted by Jonathon Heyward. Angel concluded her 24/25 season performing Violetta at the prestigious Arena di Verona in Italy and a solo recital at the Festival Peralada in Spain.
Engagements from the previous season included Ms. Blue as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera with Maestro Nicola Luisotti, and her debut in the titular role in Aida at the Royal Opera House with Sir Mark Elder. She was seen in concert with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Oskana Lyniv, and in recital with distinguished Canadian-American pianist Dr. Bryan Wagorn at Arizona Opera. Ms. Blue toured with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Nézét-Seguin throughout Europe.
At home, Ms. Blue was lauded for her powerful depiction of Micaëla in Carmen, praised by Observer for her “soaring high notes [which] gleamed thrillingly in her show-stopping aria.” Her Met season concluded spectacularly in a role debut as Magda in La Rondine at the Metropolitan Opera, with Financial Times declaring, “Blue’s luscious soprano is remarkable for its sheer beauty of tone, even from top to bottom…the full-throated passion she brings to the final scene as she abandons her lover is thrilling to hear.”
On September 23, 2019 she opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019/2020 season as Bess in a new production of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. These performances followed her internationally praised French Opera debut and role debut as Floria Tosca at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July of 2019. She has also been recognized for performances in countless other theaters, such as the Vienna State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Theater an der Wien, Teatro alla Scala, Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, Paris Opera, English National Opera, and San Diego Opera.
Puccini’s La Bohéme has played an especially prominent role in the development of Angel Blue’s career. She made her United States operatic debut as Musetta at the Los Angeles Opera in 2007 while a member of the company’s Young Artist Program and subsequently made her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in the same role in 2015. As Mimí, she has earned exceptional international acclaim. Ms. Blue first sang the role at the English National Opera in London in 2014 and has since performed Mimí for her house debuts at the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, the Vienna State Opera, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Canadian Opera Company, the Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, and of course, the Metropolitan Opera.
Equally active on the concert platform, Ms. Blue has appeared in recital and in concert in over forty countries including Hungary, Kazakhstan, India, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, South Korea, China, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. In 2011 Ms. Blue opened the Royal Opera House, in Muscat, Oman. Orchestral engagements have included concert versions of Porgy and Bess at the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle and with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Marin Alsop, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Münchener Philharmoniker under the baton of Zubin Mehta, and Verdi’s Requiem in Sydney, Australia with Oleg Caetani. She has also sung Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Peri in Schumann’s Das Paradis und die Peri with the Accademia Santa Cecilla in Rome, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Cincinnati Symphony under Music Director Louis Langree.
During the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, Ms. Blue dedicated her time to encouraging younger singers to stay motivated to finish their studies and continue in opera, through an online talk show called, "Faithful Friday" where she interviewed people who she found to be inspiring. The online talk show received much acclaim from its viewers, many called the show, "Uplifting, and exactly what is needed right now." Ms. Blue has since shifted her focus back to her family life and her singing engagements. However, she still maintains that encouraging and uplifting younger singers in the opera world is at the forefront of her platform. Angel Blue was raised in California, but makes her home on the east coast of the United States of America.