BIOGRAPHY

Michele Angelini

Tenor Michele Angelini made his European debut in 2006 as Conte di Libenskof in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, and recently reprised the role to open the 2012 season of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Italy. This season he performed the role of  Elézar in Rossini’s Moíse et Pharaon at Carnegie Hall with the Collegiate Chorale and returned to the Metropolitan Opera in Il barbiere di Siviglia.  In the 2010-2011 season Mr. Angelini performed the roles of Lindoro in L’italiana in Algieri in Bilbao, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Savonlinna Festival, Handel’s Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra and Den Norske Opera, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with the New York Choral Society. He returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Armida and made his Opera Colorado debut in La Cenerentola. In 2005, Mr. Angelini was the recipient of an encouragement award from the Opera Index foundation in NYC. A 2005 graduate of Ohio State University, he appeared there as Henrick in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, as Nadir in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles, and as Rodolfo in Act III of Puccini’s La bohème.