Artist in Residence Master Class with Angela Meade, soprano

Описание: PROGRAM
From Werther
“Va! laisse couler mes larmes”
Jules Massenet
(1842–1912)
Kourtney Holmes, mezzo-soprano

From Alceste
“Divinités du Styx”
Christoph Willibald Gluck
(1714–1787)
Kristina Tullgren, soprano

From Die Entführung aus dem Serail
“Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756–1791)
Adelaide Naegle, soprano

From Ariadne auf Naxos
“Sein wir wieder gut”
Richard Strauss
(1864–1949)
Courtney Ankerfelt, mezzo-soprano

From L’italiana in Algeri
“Cruda sorte!”
Gioachino Rossini
(1792–1868)
Courtney Schwalbe, mezzo-soprano

Bio
American soprano Angela Meade is the winner of both the Metropolitan Opera’s 2012 Beverly Sills Artist Award and the 2011 Richard Tucker Award. In 2008 she joined an elite group of history’s singers when, as Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani, she made her professional operatic debut on the Met stage. Since then, she has fast become recognized as one of today’s outstanding vocalists, excelling in the most demanding heroines of the 19th-century bel canto repertoire as well as in the operas of Verdi and Mozart.
Since her momentous Met debut, Meade’s numerous returns to the storied New York house include starring in the title roles of Norma and Sir David McVicar’s new Anna Bolena; as Leonora in Il trovatore; as Alice Ford in a new Falstaff under James Levine, as seen around the world in the Met’s Live in HD series and released on DVD by Decca Classics; and as Mozart’s Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. She also reprised Verdi’s Elvira in a production seen both in the Met’s Live in HD series and as a Great Performances at the Met presentation on PBS-TV. At Carnegie Hall, she headlined Bellini’s rare gem Beatrice di Tenda and appeared in Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon, while at Lincoln Center she sang Giselda in I Lombardi with the Opera Orchestra of New York.
Other highlights of recent seasons include debuts at the Vienna State Opera as Elena in Verdi’s I vespri siciliani; Deutsche Oper Berlin and Oper Frankfurt, in concert performances of Verdi’s I due Foscari and Puccini’s Edgar, respectively; Italy’s Teatro Regio di Torino as Mathilde in a new production of Guglielmo Tell; Los Angeles Opera and Cincinnati Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni; and, in her first fully-staged title portrayal of Norma, at Washington National Opera, where she was subsequently honored as “2013 Artist of the Year.” She was catapulted to prominence in a 2010 concert performance of Norma at the Caramoor International Music Festival, where she has also triumphed as Hélène in Verdi’s Les vêpres siciliennes, and in the title roles of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia and Rossini’s Semiramide. In 2010, Meade made her European operatic debut at The Wexford Festival in the title role of Mercadante’s rarely heard Virginia.
A native of Washington State and an alumna of the Academy of Vocal Arts, Ms. Meade has triumphed in an astounding number of vocal competitions: 57 in all, including many of the opera world’s most important prizes. In addition to being a winner at the 2007 Met National Council Auditions, as documented in The Audition, a film that was subsequently released on DVD by Decca, she was also the first singer to take first prize in both the opera and operetta categories of the prestigious Belvedere Competition.