Angel Blue
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A two‑time GRAMMY® Award winner, recipient of the Beverly Sills Award (2020) and the Richard Tucker Award (2022), she is celebrated worldwide for her honey‑toned soprano and deeply expressive portrayals of many of opera’s most beloved roles. Her repertoire includes the title roles in Aida and Tosca, Violetta in La Traviata, Bess in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Mimì in La bohème, and Destiny/Loneliness/Greta in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
Her 2025/26 season opens with performances as Bess in Houston Grand Opera’s highly anticipated new production of Porgy and Bess, marking the anniversary of the company’s first staging of the work. Angel Blue also returns to the Opéra national de Paris in the title role of Tosca, and to the Metropolitan Opera to sing both Mimì (La bohème) and Liù (Turandot).
On the concert stage, she performs Florent Schmitt’s Psalm 47 with the Houston Symphony, appears in the annual Christmas in Vienna concert at the Konzerthaus Vienna, and sings at the Grafenegg Festival. In addition, she gives recitals with pianist Bryan Wagorn at the Reykjavík Arts Festival, Spivey Hall, and The Four Arts Palm Beach.
Angel Blue launched her 2024/25 season at the hugely popular Last Night of the Proms, before returning to her home stage at the Metropolitan Opera, where she spent a significant portion of the season. In the fall, she portrayed Margarita Xirgu in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar. Across two engagements in winter and spring, she made her long‑anticipated debut as Aida, conducted by Yannick Nézet‑Séguin. Maestro Nézet‑Séguin also played a central role in her concert activity that season, when she joined him on tour with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in the Netherlands, Germany, and France.
She additionally made her company debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Mimì (La bohème). Angel Blue appeared twice at Carnegie Hall: first in recital with legendary pianist Lang Lang, and later with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under Yannick Nézet‑Séguin. Other concert engagements included a solo recital at Los Angeles Opera and Aida in concert with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jonathon Heyward.
Engagements from the previous season included Violetta (La Traviata) at the Metropolitan Opera under Nicola Luisotti, and her debut in the title role of Aida at the Royal Opera House, conducted by Sir Mark Elder. She appeared in concert with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Oksana Lyniv, and in recital with Canadian pianist Dr. Bryan Wagorn at Arizona Opera. She toured Europe with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Yannick Nézet‑Séguin, sang at the Hollywood Bowl in Verdi’s Requiem with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, returned to Santa Fe Opera in the title role of Tosca, and made her Aspen Music Festival debut in recital with pianist Myra Huang.
Angel Blue opened the 2019/20 season of the Metropolitan Opera in the role of Bess in a new production of Porgy and Bess, following widely acclaimed French operatic and role debuts as Floria Tosca at the Festival d’Aix‑en‑Provence in 2019. Since then, she has appeared on many of the world’s leading operatic stages, including the Vienna State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, Theater an der Wien, Teatro alla Scala, Baden‑Baden Festspielhaus, Opéra de Paris, English National Opera, and San Diego Opera.
Equally active on the concert platform, Angel Blue has appeared in recital and with orchestra in more than forty countries, including Hungary, Kazakhstan, India, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, South Korea, China, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico. Orchestral highlights include concert performances of Porgy and Bess with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle and with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Marin Alsop, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Munich Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta, and Verdi’s Requiem in Sydney under Oleg Caetani.
Raised in California, Angel Blue completed her musical studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She now resides in New Jersey with her husband and their son.
