NEWS
Thursday, February 15
7:30 p.m.
Hamilton Recital Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts
Denver, Colorado
Angela Mitchell returns to the stage in February to present a recital of instrumental music and art song celebrating women through music, including settings of Emile Brontë’s poetry, music by women composers, women’s stories in song, and the world premiere of Nancy Williams’s “A Modern Witch.”
Free admission and complimentary parking. Details here.
Soprano Angela Mitchell and pianist Brett Mitchell are back with a new, half-hour musical special to celebrate the arrival of spring: "A Season of Song.” Filmed in the living room of their home in the foothills outside Denver, the Mitchells share some of their favorite spring-themed music:
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (Tommy Wolf)
You Must Believe In Spring (Michel Legrand)
Frühlingsglaube (Franz Schubert)
In The Springtime (Betty Jackson King)
The Daisies (Samuel Barber)
Nature, The Gentlest Mother (Aaron Copland)
It Might As Well Be Spring (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Younger Than Springtime (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Click here to view the entire program.
In celebration of Black History Month, Angela Mitchell and Brett Mitchell are releasing new recordings of songs by Black American composers every Friday in February.
On February 5, Angela and Brett released “For You There Is No Song” by H. Leslie Adams, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932. This song is from his 1960 song cycle, “Five Millay Songs” on texts by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
On February 12, Angela and Brett shared “Night” by Florence Price. Ms. Price wrote the song in 1946 on a poem by Louise C. Wallace. Using vivid imagery, the text describes a child falling asleep as night falls.
On February 19, the Mitchells featured William Grant Still’s “Grief.” The poem is by LeRoy V. Brant, who was inspired after seeing a statue of an angel while out on a walk.
The final song, with a planned release of February 26, will be “Soliloquy” by John W. Work (1901-67).
Soprano Angela Mitchell and pianist Brett Mitchell present a new, half-hour holiday special, ‘Christmas with the Mitchells,’ premiering Tuesday, December 15 at 6 MT/8 ET. Filmed in the living room of their home in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains outside Denver, the Mitchells share some of their favorite holiday music, including:
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
My Favorite Things
Grown-Up Christmas List
O Holy Night
The First Noel
When the Meadow Was Bloomin’
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (sneak peek)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Watch the premiere on YouTube at 6 MT/8 ET on December 15. The special will also remain at that link for later viewing in perpetuity.
Soprano Angela Mitchell, clarinetist Jason Shafer, and pianist Brett Mitchell perform a Colorado-inspired version of Franz Schubert's "The Shepherd on the Rock,” recorded and filmed on location in Genesee, Colorado.
The YouTube premiere is Wednesday, October 14 at 6:00pm MDT. Angela, Jason, and Brett will be on hand during the premiere to chat virtually with viewers.
Click here for more information and to set a reminder, and watch the trailer here.
Angela Mitchell has been selected to appear in Pioneering in Place, a virtual performing arts festival presented by the University of Denver. Ms. Mitchell and husband Brett Mitchell recorded “Burn” from the musical “Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Pioneering in Place starts at 6:00pm MDT on Wednesday, September 23, and you must register to view the virtual festival. Registration is free but required.
Angela Mitchell joined a virtual ensemble of Colorado Symphony musicians and Music Director Brett Mitchell to explore Gustav Mahler's ninth and final symphony. When the performance of the full work had to be canceled due to COVID-19, the Colorado Symphony and Mr. Mitchell decided to present portions of the symphony virtually, with orchestra musicians playing from home. Ms. Mitchell performs two of the prominent themes from the last movement of the symphony: the hymn “Abide with me” and an excerpt from “The day is fine on yonder heights” from Mahler’s own Kindertotenlieder.
Due to the ongoing health crisis, the Lamont School of Music and Newman Center for the Performing Arts have canceled all events through at least April 30. This includes Lamont Opera Theatre’s production of The Magic Flute, in which Angela Mitchell would have appeared as Pamina on April 24 and 26.
The University of Denver will be online-only until at least April 10, and will announce by March 31 whether this will be extended further. Faculty will decide then whether to schedule Flute for later in the spring quarter, or in the fall if necessary.
If you would like to exchange your tickets for a future show this season, or to donate your tickets, please email newmanboxoffice@du.edu or call 303-871-7720.
To keep audience members and performers safe during the COVID-19 health crisis, the University of Denver and the Lamont School of Music have cancelled all events through April 10. This includes Lamont Opera Theatre’s co-production with Denver Immersive Opera, the regional premiere of Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens.
Angela Mitchell would have appeared as Polyxo in the DU cast in the March 22 and 28 performances. To request a refund, please email denverimmersiveopera@gmail.com.
Tickets are now on sale for Mozart’s The Magic Flute, presented by Lamont Opera Theatre at the University of Denver. Angela Mitchell will appear as Pamina in the April 24 and April 26 performances.
Denver Immersive Opera has announced the regional premiere of Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens, in which Angela Mitchell will appear as Polyxo. Featuring three sopranos and prepared piano, the work blends beautiful music, terrifying noise, screwball comedy, and Aristotelian tragedy to present the mythological sirens as real beings, invested in their own origins and obsessed with the possibility of escape from the tedium of endless irresistible desire.
Following its 2014 premiere in New York, the New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini described the work as “inspired and strangely powerful…no one interested in smudging the boundaries of contemporary opera and theater should miss it.” The Wall Street Journal called it “audacious, genre-bending music theatre.”
The production is a collaboration with the University of Denver Lamont School of Music, where Ms. Mitchell is pursuing a performance certificate and also serves on staff as recruiter. She will appear in the March 22 (3pm) and March 28 (7pm) performances.
Angela Mitchell will appear as Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, April 23-26, 2019. The opera is being presented by the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver, where Ms. Mitchell is currently pursuing a performance certificate in voice. Performances take place in Gates Hall at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30pm April 23–April 25 and 2:30pm on April 26. Tickets go on sale February 3, 2020.
Angela Mitchell and Brett Mitchell
On Tuesday, December 17 at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Brett Mitchell, Music Director of the Colorado Symphony accompanies Angela Mitchell on a program from the worlds of opera and Broadway.
This recital is presented exclusively for members of the Lamont Society, which provides financial support and promotes the mission, vision and activities of the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music. If you are interested in attending the recital and would like to becoming a Lamont Society member, please contact PR Director Chris Wiger at 303-871-6499 or chris.wiger@du.edu.
Angela & Brett after a 2017 performance of La Bohème.
Angela Mitchell and Brett Mitchell will present a recital on Thursday, May 16 at 7:00pm in the Genesee Vista Clubhouse. The program will feature hits from Broadway musicals and American operas including Hamilton, Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, West Side Story, Into the Woods, Susannah, and The Tender Land. They’ll also perform John Kander's "A Letter from Sullivan Ballou."
Angela Mitchell will join the Colorado Symphony to host and sing in the education concert "Link Up: The Orchestra Rocks," developed by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. The concert is Tuesday, May 14 at 11:00 a.m. at Boettcher Concert Hall.
Angela Mitchell will make her solo vocal debut with the Colorado Symphony on May 2 and 3, singing “Heavensward” on the program Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy.
Angela Mitchell and the Front Range Chamber Players will be reprising their performance of Jenni Brandon’s “Sun Songs” on the Second Tuesdays at Trinity series. The concert is Tuesday, October 9 at 7:30pm at Trinity Presbyterian Church, located at 7755 Vance Drive in Arvada, Colorado. Tickets are available for purchase here as well as at the door the evening of the performance.
On Tuesday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m., Angela Mitchell will make her Colorado debut onstage with the Front Range Chamber Players at McNeal Auditorium in Fort Collins. She will perform "Sun Songs" by Jenni Brandon (b. 1977) and "The Gorgeous Nothings" by Ingrid Stölzel (b. 1971). For tickets and more information, click here.
Margaret Brouwer's oratorio Voice of the Lake, for which Angela Mitchell sung the soprano solo in the world premiere, will air in full on two episodes of WCLV's "Innovations." Parts I & II will air Sunday, March 4 and Parts III & IV will air Sunday, March 11. Both shows begin at 9pm, hosted by Mark Satola.
Photo by Shane Wynn
Angela Mitchell will return to the Akron Symphony for the third consecutive year to host and sing in a pair of education concerts. The program, called "Link Up: The Orchestra Rocks," is developed by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. There are concerts at 9:45am and 11:15am on Tuesday, March 13 at the Akron Civic Theatre.
