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Canadian Mezzo Emily D'Angelo Makes Finals of 2016 Met Audition 

by Wah Keung Chan Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo is one of nine finalists of the 2016 Metropolitan Opera's National Council Auditions to be held on March 13, 2016. D'Angelo hails from Toronto and is currently completing her undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance at the University of Toronto, studying under soprano Elizabeth McDonald, and is a student of New York City voice teacher Patricia McCaffrey. She will join the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio in Fall 2016. See below for the press release and full list of the nine finalists. Sean Michael Plumb, Emily D'Angelo, Jakub Józef Orliński, Sol Jin, Yelena Dyachek, Jonas Hacker, Lauren Feider, Brian Vu, and Theo Hoffman pose together following the announcement of the Finalists. Photo by Rebecca Fay/Metropolitan Opera. Nine Young Opera Singers Advance to the Final Round ofAmerica’s Most […]

Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc

2015-12-11 20:05:11

Jennifer Larmore: ‘ I was waitressing, I worked at a Candy shop…’ 

Exclusive to Slipped Disc readers as a treat for your weekend, we publish an extract from the new tell-all memoirs of the outstanding international mezzo-soprano. Jennifer writes here about what she calls ‘The Abyss’ period between college and career when nothing is happening… and nothing might ever happen. You can purchase Una Voce at amazon, here. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG SINGER Just the thought of everything I did wrong as a young singer makes me cringe! It’s not hard enough having to be young, innocent, protected, incredibly naive and downright ignorant at times, but I had to also learn all about life at the same time as I was trying to learn all about being an opera singer. But I survived to tell the tale and unlike “Ishmael” in Moby Dick, I’m not the […]