The 2020 recipient of the Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Artist Award, established by Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman, California-born soprano Angel Blue made her Met debut in 2017 as Mimì in La Bohème and has since returned to sing more than 100 performances of ten roles, including Margarita Xirgu in the company premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, the title role of Aida, Magda in La Rondine, Liù in Turandot, Micaela in Carmen, Violetta in La Traviata, Bess in Porgy and Bess, and Destiny/Loneliness/Greta in the company premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones. This season, she reprises her portrayals of Mimì and Liù and also sings Schmitt’s Psalm 47 with the Houston Symphony; Bess at Houston Grand Opera; the title role of Tosca at the Paris Opera; recitals in Palm Beach, Atlanta, New York, Valencia, and Reykjavik; and concerts with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Tonkunstler Orchestra. Her recent past performances include Violetta in Verona and at Houston Grand Opera; Aida at Covent Garden and in concert with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; the title role of Luisa Miller with Washington Concert Opera; Mimi at the Bavarian State Opera; Tosca at the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, Santa Fe Opera, and LA Opera; and Leonora in Il Trovatore at San Francisco Opera.
