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Internationally recognized for her “beauty and musicality” (The London Times), as well as her “attractively full-bodied, passionate soprano voice” (Opera News), Angela L. Owens has appeared in opera, theater, concert, television and film across the globe and throughout the U.S. Internationally, Angela’s credits include performances with the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Theater München, Koninklijk Theater Carré, and Opéra Comique (Paris), as well as The Dallas Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Opera Ebony, Encompass New Opera, The Dessoff Choirs and with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
 

Regional theater credits include Hattie in Kiss Me Kate, Mrs. Brown in Me and My Gal, Flo in Good News (Mac-Haydn Theater), Alice in I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road, Susannah in Tintypes, (Martin Theatre), Belladova in Phantom and Josephine Baker in the world premiere of Dodsworth (Casa Mañana Theater).
 

A frequent collaborator on new works, Angela has premiered pieces at the Composers Now Festival with Tania León, Trilogy: An Opera Company, National Sawdust, and the live adaptation of WQXR’s Terrence McKnight's radio documentary, A Beautiful Symphony Of Brotherhood for New Jersey’s UPAC Auditorium, as well as McNight’s recent commission with the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Handel: Made in America. She is a member of the world-renowned American Spiritual Ensemble (Everett McCorvey), Chorale Le Chateau (Damien Sneed) and the New York Philharmonic Chorus (Malcolm J. Merriweather).
 

A frequent clinician and panelist, Angela has served as a guest presenter for Rochester Regional Health, the Kaufman Center at Hill House (Pittsburgh), Lyric Opera of Chicago and the American Church in Paris. She has also led masterclasses and lecture series for Columbia University, Wagner College, Ithaca College, Berry College and Tougaloo College.
 

In television, Angela’s credits include Investigation Discovery’s Shadow of Doubt and The Perfect Murder, CBS’s Bull, and Netflix’s Luke Cage.
 

On recordings, Angela can be heard as The Narrator in Egil Hovland’s Saul conducted by Donald Neuen, with the American Spiritual Ensemble and the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra Live at the Lyric’s recording, The Duke Returns! and as Alice Ruth Moore in Richard Thompson’s The Mask in the Mirror (Parma Records/Naxos), which was awarded Critic’s Choice by Opera News.

Angela is a former member of the voice faculties of Wagner College and the University of Wisconsin. She currently teaches MT voice at Manhattan School of Music, Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music and at Interlochen Center for the Arts, as well as maintaining a private studio. She is an alumna of Brevard College, Florida State University and The University of Kentucky.

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