Soprano Angela Maria Blasi is one of today’s most exciting lyric sopranos, performing regularly with the world’s most prominent opera companies, orchestras, and festivals, including Munich, Vienna, Sydney, New York City Opera, and the New York Metropolitan Opera. Impeccable musicianship, stylistic authenticity, and an engaging stage personality are just some of the trademarks of this personable and versatile artist.
     After winning numerous voice competitions including the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in 1981, Ms. Blasi became a contracted member of the Hessen State Theater in Wiesbaden. In 1985 Wolfgang Sawallisch offered her a contract at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where she soon became an audience favorite in leading roles such as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Mimi (La bohème), Liu (Turandot), Micaela (Carmen), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) and Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly). Her successes in Munich were highlighted by her 1994 appointment as “Kammersängerin” by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture as well as the 2000 Munich Merkur Press Award for her superlative interpretation of Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust.
     Ms. Blasi is well known as a recording artist and received a 2004 Grammy Nomination (Best Vocal Performance) for her interpretation of the orchestral songs of Joseph Marx. Other important recordings include collaborations with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in works of Bach and Mozart, Sir Colin Davis and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in Requiems by Mozart and Brahms, and Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Philharmonia Orchestra in Mahler’s fourth and eighth symphonies. Her film credits feature the Salzburg Landestheater production of Mozart’s Il re pastore with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields on Phillips, as Musetta in the Luigi Comencini/ERATO recording and film of La bohème with Barbara Hendricks and Jose Carreras, and as the featured soprano soloist with Zubin Mehta in numerous commercially released European gala and concert DVDs.