| Angel Blue | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1983 |
| Genres | Opera |
| Occupations | Opera singer Soprano |
| Instruments | voice, classical piano, electric bass |
| Years active | 1996 - present |
| Website | www.AngelJoyBlue.com |
Angel Joy Blue (born May 3, 1983 in California) is an American operatic soprano. Blue's voice has been recognized for its shining and agile upper register, "smoky" middle register, and beautiful timbre. She has performed internationally and won numerous awards such as Operalia[1] and Miss Hollywood. Placido Domingo has described Angel as “the next Leontyne Price”.
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Angel Blue has performed lead roles and as a featured soloist at Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Colburn School, Royce Hall, the Staples Center, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Seoul Arts Center.[2][3]
Her operatic repertoire includes such roles as Violetta (La Traviata), Musetta (La Boheme), Micaela (Carmen), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Liu (Turandot), Manon (Manon), Contessa Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Olympia and Antonia (Tales of Hoffmann), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni).
Blue has sung the National Anthem for the Border Governors Conference, hosted by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and for the California Women's Conference, hosted by California First Lady Maria Shriver.[4]
In 2009, Ms. Blue was a finalist in Operalia, receiving 1st place in the Zarzuela competition, and 2nd place in the Opera competition.[5][6] She has also received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion’s Emerging Young Entertainers Award, and the Redlands Bowl Competition.[7]
Blue received a Masters of Music degree in Opera Performance from UCLA[8] in 2007 and a Bachelor’s of Music from the University of Redlands in 2005. She is an alumnus of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where she studied voice and classical piano. She was a member of the Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program at Los Angeles Opera from 2007/2009. Angel is a current member of the Artistas de la Academia "Placido Domingo" del Palau de les Arts from 2009–2010, under Maestros Alberto Zedda, Lorin Maazel, and Zubin Mehta.[9]
Angel Blue has been a featured soloist on the Madrilenos por Haiti concert with La Orquesta Clasica de Espana in Madrid, Spain. The concert was dedicated to raising funds for housing projects for Haitians who have relocated to the Dominican Republic.
In addition to singing, the 5’11” soprano is a former model and beauty queen. Blue was the first and only African-American to have held the title of Miss Apple Valley California. She competed in the Miss Empire America pageant and received 1st runner in 2003. She has held such titles as Miss Hollywood 2005, Miss Southern California 2006, and 1st runner up to both Miss California 2006 and Miss Nevada 2007[10][11] and finished 1st runner up at Miss California 2005.[12] In 2005 Angel represented the state of California as Miss California Sweetheart at the National Sweetheart Pageant, where she won the overall talent award singing “Sempre Libera.”
| Preceded by Jillian Hallman |
Miss Hollywood 2005 |
Succeeded by Amy Yetasook |