Pelagia Pamel

• 2025: Governess, The Turn of the Screw (Britten) - Indiana University
• 2024: Chorus, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Bates) - Indiana University & The Metropolitan Opera (World premiere)
• 2024: Opera Fellow, Festival Napa Valley's Manetti Shrem Opera Program - Napa, California
• 2024: Encouragement Award, George Shirley Voice Competition
• 2024: Winner, Sam Vitale & Aaron Caruso Neapolitan Art Song Competition
• 2024: Performance Fellowship & Artistic Excellence Scholarship - Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
• 2023: Diana, Orphée aux enfers - University of Michigan
• 2023: Winner, Friends of Opera Undergraduate Competition
• 2023: Zerlina, Don Giovanni - Prague Summer Nights Festival & Czech National Opera
• 2023: Niña, Ainadamar - Detroit Opera & The Metropolitan Opera (production premiere)
• 2022: Chorus, Aida in Concert - Detroit Opera
• 2022: Aphrodite, Triangle (Solitro) - University of Michigan
• 2022: Chorus, Mahler No. 2 - Detroit Symphony Orchestra
• 2022: Grasshopper/Fox Cub, The Cunning Little Vixen (in Czech) - University of Michigan
• 2022: Prince Orlofsky, Die Fledermaus - Berlin Opera Academy
• 2022: Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro - Vienna Summer Music Festival
• 2022: Chorus, Beethoven No. 9 - Detroit Symphony Orchestra
• 2021: "Meet Me Here" Soloist, Considering Matthew Shepard - University of Michigan Chamber Choir (PBS National Broadcast)

Greek-American soprano Pelagia Pamel has performed over a dozen roles at the university, young artist, and professional levels. Pelagia begins her 2024-2025 season singing in the chorus of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Bates), a newly commissioned opera performed at Indiana University as a co-production with The Metropolitan Opera. Looking ahead in the season, Pelagia is thrilled to be performing Governess—the lead role in Britten's The Turn of the Screw—at Indiana University in Spring 2025.

During the summer, Pelagia was a 2024 Fellow at the Manetti Shrem Opera Program of Festival Napa Valley. She sang Mimì (La bohème) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) in the festival’s “Vocal Fantastique” opera scenes concert with symphony orchestra, along with "Porgi amor" as Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro) for the festival’s vocal recital.

In Spring 2023, Pelagia was a Niña (vocalist and dancer) in Deborah Colker's US premiere production of Golijov's Ainadamar (The Fountain of Tears) at Detroit Opera—as a co-production with The Metropolitan Opera.

Pelagia sang Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni with the 2023 Prague Summer Nights Festival at the Estates Theatre, in partnership with the Czech National Opera. She also performed as Vixen from Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (sung in Czech) for the festival’s opera scenes concert at the Oskar Nedbal Theatre in Tábor, Czech Republic.

Other European-based engagements include various performances in 2022 as a festival singer with Berlin Opera Academy's Opernfest (notably, as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus) and Vienna Summer Music Festival (notably, as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro).

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In the beginning of the 2023-2024 season, Pelagia sang her fifth role with the University of Michigan—Diana in Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers. She made her debut as a solo concert artist, performing as the soprano soloist for Ein deutsches Requiem by Brahms with Wayne State University. She ended the year singing as a soloist for Beethoven's Mass in C with the University of Michigan at Hill Auditorium. In 2024, Pelagia was soloist for the University of Michigan's annual "Collage Concert" at Hill Auditorium, reprising solos from both of her previous Beethoven and Offenbach performances.

Pelagia was honored to be chosen to represent the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at the University of Michigan's annual Honors Convocation at Hill Auditorium, where she presented an original jazz-inspired arrangement of Andra Day's "Rise Up" in collaboration with jazz pianist Brendon Davis while also participating in the ceremony as a University Honors student herself.

She is the winner of the 2023 Friends of Opera Undergraduate Competition and 2024 Sam Vitale and Aaron Caruso Neapolitan Art Song Competition.

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During her multi-year membership of esteemed conductor Eugene Rogers’ Chamber Choir at the University of Michigan, Pelagia was the “Meet Me Here” soloist and a singer in the “Keep it Away From Me” choreographed trio for the choir’s 2021 televised national broadcast of Considering Matthew Shepard. Pelagia has also sung in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s chorus, performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Hannah Lash’s In Hopes of Finding the Sun, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. Pelagia finished 2022 singing in the chorus of Detroit Opera’s "Aida in Concert."

Pelagia trained as a competitive and show ice skater for 15 years. She has 10 years of experience performing roles in musical theatre productions. Pelagia also has 9 years of performing experience as a trained violinist.

Pelagia Pamel graduated with highest honors from the University of Michigan with a B.M. in Voice Performance and a B.A. in International Studies, specializing in International Securities, Norms, and Cooperation.

She is pursuing a M.M. degree in Voice Performance at Jacobs School of Music - Indiana University with full merit-based support, studying with renowned soprano Heidi Grant Murphy.