ANGELA DE VENUTO, SOPRANO

Praised for her versatility and range, soprano Angela

De Venuto is becoming known as a dramatic force in classical music. In addition to the standard repertory, De Venuto’s affinity for new music makes her a soughtafter interpreter by many of today’s established and up-and-coming composers of vocal music.

De Venuto has recently made role debuts with the Savannah Voice Festival as Musetta (La Bohème) and the title role in Alice Riley (Michael Ching) under the baton of Andrew Bisantz, and the world premiere of Michael Ching’s Anna Hunter as Sarah Davenport/Jane.

De Venuto has portrayed a wide range of characters, including: Emily Webb (Our Town), Mrs. Grose (The Turn of the Screw), Drusilla (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), the title role in Angélique, Adele (Die Fledermaus), Amore (The Return of Ulysses, DePaul Opera Theatre), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Despina (Cosí fan tutte, DuPage Opera Theatre), Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw, Chicago Fringe Opera), Marzelline (Fidelio, Intermezzi), and Maria (West Side Story, Northwest Chicago Symphony).

De Venuto has been a soloist and recitalist with Ensemble 20+, a Chicago based contemporary music ensemble, the Music Institute of Chicago, the Metropolis Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra of Evanston, and DePaul University’s Symphony Orchestra, singing pieces from the concert canon such as Mozart’s Requiem and C Minor Mass, Faure’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Schubert’s Mass in G Major, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. New music highlights include Comala Suite by Zohn-Muldoon based on the novel Pedro Párama by Mexican author Juan Rulfo, Poems of Amy Lowell set by Benjamin Krause, and Estonian folk texts set by Leo Radosavljevic. Notable composer collaborations include, Thomas Pasatieri, Libby Larsen, and her husband, singer, pianist, and composer, Leo Radosavljevic.

Most recently, De Venuto was a quarterfinalist in the 12th International Telemann Competition held in Telemann’s birthplace of Magdeburg, Germany and was named a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council competition (2019). De Venuto has been awarded first prizes in the Evanston Music Club Competition (2018), Classical Singer competition Emerging Professional

Division (2017), Musician’s Club of Women (2017), the Sherrill Milnes Opera Idol competition (2016), and won 2nd place in the Harold Haugh Light Opera Competition (2018). Working in collaboration with her husband, they received 2nd prize in Chicago’s 3rd annual SongSlam art song competition with his setting of Eleanor Roosevelt’s address to the United Nations in 1948 (Words of Eleanor).

De Venuto has been on faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago since 2020 and was a former MIC student of Susan Charles. Angela received her Masters and Bachelors of Music degrees in Vocal Performance from DePaul University.