Angela Mitchell has performed extensively in opera and musical theatre for almost two decades, appearing with such companies as the Colorado Symphony, Loveland Opera Theatre, Cleveland Opera Theater, The Cleveland Opera, the Akron Symphony, Theatre in the Circle, French Creek Theater, Lorain Community Music Theater, Lone Star Lyric, and Opera in the Heights. Her choral experience includes the Colorado Symphony Chorus, the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, and Quire Cleveland.
Ms. Mitchell’s recent operatic roles include Pamina in The Magic Flute, Musetta in La Bohème, Nannetta in Falstaff, Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, Mademoiselle Silberklang in The Impresario, and Pauline in La vie parisienne. Her musical theatre credits include Agnes in I Do! I Do!, Cinderella in Into the Woods, Woman No. 2 in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and Emma in Jekyll & Hyde. As a strong proponent of contemporary music, Ms. Mitchell frequently collaborates with composers, and gave the world premieres of Voice of the Lake by Margaret Brouwer and Sappho Fragments by Joel Zigman.
By day, Ms Mitchell serves as recruiter for the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver, where she is also pursuing a performance certificate. Previously, she was a classical radio host for WCLV Classical 104.9, where she hosted WCLV All Night, If It Ain’t Baroque, Classical Weekend, and select episodes of First Fridays and Cleveland Ovations. She was executive producer on the award-winning Star Wars special, The Score Awakens. She also spent several years working as a technology consultant for Deloitte Consulting.
Ms. Mitchell holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Houston, where she studied voice with Cynthia Clayton and acting with Buck Ross. She earned a Bachelor of Music and a Bachelor of Science in Business at the University of Minnesota. She currently studies with Sara Bardill and Catherine Kasch at the University of Denver.