About

Michigan-based soprano Angela Bonello is passionate about using her voice to bring joy to audiences through opera, art song, choral music, and sacred music. She has earned top honors in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Michigan and Regional Competitions, most recently winning Second Place at the 2025 NATS Regional Competition. She was named a Semifinalist in the international Lotte Lenya Competition (2021), was awarded the First Place Charlotte Ruppel Memorial Voice Award through the Birmingham Musicale (2024), and received the Blanche Z. Hoffman Memorial Voice Award from SAI Philanthropies, Inc. (2025). Angela has performed as a soloist and chorister with the Choral Artists of Michigan and Holy Name Parish Schola on works including Fauré Requiem, Duruflé Requiem, and Mendelssohn Hear My Prayer/O For the Wings of a Dove. In December 2024, she made her soloist debut with the Macomb Symphony Orchestra singing the Bach Magnificat. Operatic roles include Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Papagena (The Magic Flute), Lucy (The House on Mango Street), Sister Constance (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Patience (Patience), and Despina (Così fan tutte). Angela has participated in performance outreach with the Motor City Lyric Opera, created the role of Beth the Butterfly in a workshop of a new anti-bullying children’s opera with the MCLO, and sang with the 1950s Village Cruisers group at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI. Angela earned her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and Music Education from Oakland University in 2022. She was recognized as an Outstanding Student in Music Education as a MaTilDa Award Recipient through Oakland University (2023) and directed the choirs at Waldon Middle School in Lake Orion, Michigan from 2023-2024. Angela is pursuing her Master of Music degree in Voice Performance at the University of Michigan and studies with Caitlin Lynch.