Winner of the 2011 Richard Tucker Award and less than four years after her professional debut, Meade has quickly become recognized as one of the outstanding vocalists of her generation. Meade excels in the most demanding heroines of the nineteenth century bel canto repertoire as well as in the operas of Verdi and Mozart.In the 2011/12 season, Angela Meade will return to the Metropolitan Opera in the title role of David McVicar’s new production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, conducted by Marco Armiliato. She will also return to the Metropolitan Opera to the role of her professional debut in a reprise of Verdi’s Ernani as Elvira, opposite Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto, also conducted by Marco Armiliato. This production will be seen live in HD around the world. She had previously sung on the Met stage as one of the winners of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a process that is documented in the film The Audition recently released on DVD by Decca. She is a native of Washington State and currently resides in New York.