An “Angelic” Soprano:
Meet Angel Blue

By age 9, soprano Angel Blue already knew that she wanted to be an opera singer. After beginning her studies with her father, award-winning baritone tenor Sylvester Blue, Angel enrolled in the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where she won the first of many awards she would later receive – the Outstanding Musician Award and Most Outstanding Senior Award.

Angel made her professional debut with the Redlands Symphony, under the baton of conductor Jon Robertson. Opera roles she has since performed include the title role in Suor Angelica, the mother in Ahmal and the Night Visitors, Jenny in Threepenny Opera, Helena and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Giuletta in The Tales of Hoffmann, Belinda and Dido in Dido and Aeneas, and Ruggerio in Alcina. In 2007, Angel made her debut at the Los Angeles Opera – where she is currently a member of the Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program – as Musetta in La Boheme.

Maintaining the prize-winning streak begun while she was still in high school, Angel has won awards from the Metropolitan National Council Auditions, the Palm Springs Opera Guild Competition, the ACT-SO NAACP Classical Voice Competition, and the Redlands Bowl Competition. She also received the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion’s “Emerging Young Entertainers Award.”

As a pageant contestant, Angel has won the Talent Award in every competition she entered. In addition, she was the first African-American to win the Miss Apple Valley title in 2003 and was crowned Miss Hollywood and Miss California Sweetheart in 2005 and Miss Southern California in 2006. The stunning soprano has also earned first runner up awards for Miss Empire America in 2004, Miss California in 2006, and Miss Nevada in 2007.

Angel graduated with honors from the University of Redlands in 2005 and, in 2007, earned her Masters of Music degree in Opera Performance from the University of California, Los Angeles. She now resides in Culver City, California.